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The problem is that adding high density housing to an area not built for it has a chicken and egg problem. When you add a massive high rise a lot of people move
by cstejerean 10y ago
The problem is that adding high density housing to an area not built for it has a chicken and egg problem. When you add a massive high rise a lot of people move in. They all need to commute somewhere. Except now the streets can't accommodate the car traffic and the public transit system is also inadequate. And it will take a decade to catch up. So in the meantime everyone around the new high rise gets to suffer for the next 10 years, and it's understandable why they aren't particularly excited about it. On the other hand you can't build up the infrastructure first because you don't have any money to do so pre-emptively.
- panglott 10y agoThey're not talking about a massive high-rise in this article. They're talking about a four-story apartment building that has 10% more units than a conventional studio apartment building, and is on high-frequency transit lines with good bicycle access.
- Asooka 10y agoNo area has historically been built for high density housing. You build the housing and that creates new problems that you then solve, which in turn cause more problems to solve, etc. etc. in a process usually known as "life". The important thing is to serve the zeitgeist of today, rather than the perfectly spherical zeitgeist in vacuum of imaginary tomorrow.