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Why would you live in a city when there's plenty of suburban sprawl? There are lots of reasons of efficiency to build up even if you can build out.
by mason55 9y ago
Why would you live in a city when there's plenty of suburban sprawl?
There are lots of reasons of efficiency to build up even if you can build out.
- sliken 9y agoRomans had neither elevators or air conditioning. They did build on a fairly large scale though. I believe 150 foot tall structures were not uncommon, and those are the ones still standing.
- themgt 9y agoThat's simply a false dichotomy. Many of the world's great cities still mostly enforce height limits that the Romans could have built to. Because actually living like an ant among 100 story skyscrapers is not what most humans want. A medium density and mixed use city of max ~150 foot high buildings has very few disadvantages and analogizing it to USA suburban sprawl is just laughable nonsense. Have you ever been to e.g. Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, Florence ... most of Western Europe?
- Jaruzel 9y agoAlso, less than 150 years ago, there was one seventh of the population on this planet than there is now. In fact, during the time of the Roman Empire there were only 300 million people on this rock, 45 million or so were within the Empire[1]. Skyscrapers are only a good solution if you have over-population. No-one in their right mind would ever want to live or work in one if they didn't have to. -- [1] http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/killing-jesus/articles/history-of-jesus-era/ http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/killing-jesus/articles... (first Google hit)
- pouetpouet 9y agoAncient Rome grew beyond 1 million inhabitants in the 2d century. Chang'an (Xi'an), China in the 8th century, Bagdad around the 10th century. There were big cities before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_throughout_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_through...