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paris is one of the highest density cities on earth with virutally no highrises whatsoever.
by throwaway2048 9y ago
paris is one of the highest density cities on earth with virutally no highrises whatsoever.
- ruytlm 9y agoYes, because unlike a lot of 'new world' cities, there are huge areas of Paris that are a consistent 2-4 stories high. See e.g. the Google Maps images in this article [0] discussing Australian vs. European cities. [0]: https://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2015/11/30/how-dense-are-our-cities-compared-to-paris/ https://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2015/11/30/how-dense...
- justinator 9y agoAnd there are places in Paris where you cannot drive a modern American style car down the medieval streets. Those boulevards are relatively new.
- egypturnash 9y agoI'm no sure that's a bad thing at all. I would imagine it encourages people to walk, bicycle, and use public transit to get around?
- beguiledfoil 9y agoAmericans hate small streets. It's a dumb opinion, but it's widely held.
- justinator 9y agoOh! Didn't want to reflect the size of the street as a good, or bad, thing. Just as another explanation why Paris can be SO dense, with buildings that aren't incredibly high - Buildings are packed in close to each other. The height of the buildings are a signature architectural element of Paris, broken only by the Tour Eiffel. Businesses many times occupy the ground floor, with apartments up top - relatively normal in European cities, but against many zoning laws in the States. The layout of the city certainly doesn't make owning a personal car all that, say, automatic of a choice. Paris is not a large city. When living there, I may have used the metroonce a month, but mostly just rode my bike to where I wanted to go (cheaper! and usually faster...). You could easily walk half the city in a relatively short amount of time (as I was oft to do after a party!). High speed trains could whisk you to many bordering countries in just a few hours. Ah! Paris: un joli désordre!
- egypturnash 9y agoman i wanna move to paris now that sounds like paradise.
- megy 9y agoYes, another great thing about Paris.
- SlowBro 9y agoHaving upstairs neighbors would drive me batty. I did it — once. Do they have better soundproofing or am I just too noise sensitive?
- aaronblohowiak 9y agoWe know how to build pretty much soundproofed units; it is a matter of cost / priority.
- SlowBro 9y agoDo they do that in Paris? Or do they suffer there as well?
- d3ckard 9y agoNot living in Paris, but in Poland we have similar living style. I don't understand a problem. Noise isolation is usually very good in modern apartments. I can organize a party, have 15 drunk people in my apartment talking loudly and after I go out and close the door I can't hear anything. We consider "noisy" a major quality flaw for the building.
- dazc 9y agoMaybe you have a hearing problem?
- sgift 9y agoOr maybe his home isn't a shack without noise isolation. We live in the 21 century. It's not magic to isolate apartments from each other.
- SlowBro 9y agoNow that I think about it, I work in a four story office building and of course I never ever hear anything from the other floors. The apartments where I was were old and cheap. Must not have been built with sound dampening in mind.
- cm2187 9y agoA typical Parisian apartment building has 8 floors. Not a sky scrapper by any mean but still a lot denser than most other European cities. In London a typical residential building has 2 or 3 floors.
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- cimmanom 9y agoIn part because Paris apartments are minuscule. A 2-br in Paris can be smaller than an already-small (by American standards) NYC studio. Think bedrooms large enough to fit only a bed in a corner and a foot of space between the bed and one wall to allow access to it. Or a kitchen measuring 4x5 feet including appliances. Most Americans aren't willing to accept those living conditions.