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I think this article misunderstands a bit about how cities grow. Any place that's now high density in a city, used to look something like a suburb. Especially i
by DubiousPusher 10y ago
I think this article misunderstands a bit about how cities grow. Any place that's now high density in a city, used to look something like a suburb. Especially in the US, every place that has a recently built 5 story midrise building probably used to be 1/4-1/3 acre lots with 2,000sqft houses on them.
Doesn't sound like a big deal but consider that land is cheap, land with buildings is not. You can find an acre around where I live for 250,000-350,000 dollars but you want to buy four neighboring houses and build density, that's going to start at 2.4 million.
And of course, you have to pay for each house what someone looking to live in it would be willing to pay. Density is only acheived when the price of density becomes worth it. If you're building a city from scratch, density is cheap but very few cities get built from scratch.
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- kuschku 10y agoThat’s not actually true, at all. This is from a tiny village in Germany: http://newworldeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/GV-3.jpg http://newworldeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/GV-3... This is a village in Italy: http://newworldeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/iv3.jpg http://newworldeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/iv3.... A Swiss village: http://newworldeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/sv2.jpg http://newworldeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/sv2.... A French village from above: http://newworldeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/eguisheim-alsace.jpg http://newworldeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/egui... Another French village from above: http://newworldeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/obernai-alsace.jpg http://newworldeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ober... Do you notice something? These are tiny villages; around them for many kilometers is farmland. Yet they’re very dense.