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Yes, 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
by ruytlm 9y ago
Yes, 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.