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25 minutes on foot? It's more of a village than a city.

jcelerier 8y ago
> 25 minutes on foot? It's more of a village than a city. you can walk from side to side of Paris in a tad more than one hour with a good rhythm, and two hours if you take it normally.
- adrianN 8y ago
  Paris is ~10km across. The metropole region around it is much larger.
- boobsbr 8y ago
  Considering Paris is roughly 10 km across North-South, that's about 12 min/km at an average human walking speed. So, this city is about 2 km across, which is very small, a village, considering smaller cities are more sparsely populated than an European metropolis.
  - mattmanser 8y ago
    You're really fixated on this village thing. Drop into street view in the city centre and have a look around. It's not a village.
  - ajuc 8y ago
    Depends on the country probably. In my country villages are very often https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_settlement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_settlement , going on for kilometers along some road, with farming land on both sides. Small to medium cities (< 100 000 people) are often very dense because they're mostly made out of commieblocks or old tenament houses. It's much easier to live without a car in a city. BTW: this village goes on for 20 km. It has 6000 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawoja https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawoja For comparison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionowo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionowo is the most densely populated city in Poland, it has about 50 000 people, and is about 3x5 km of low buildings. And still about 10% of the city is a forest :) Cars waste so much space that people are used to bloated cities.
  - TheCoelacanth 8y ago
    1/25th the size of Paris is not what I would call a "village". Paris is a huge metropolis. It is a small-medium sized city. Additionally, Paris is not exactly a demonstration of how larger cities need cars considering that about 70% of its inhabitants commute without using a car at all.
- PascLeRasc 8y ago
  I'll settle for 3 hours and a croque-monsieur :)
fabatka 8y ago
Are you familiar with the saying "In Europe 100 miles is a long way, In the US 100 years is a long time"?
- boobsbr 8y ago
  No, but now I am.
- scbrg 8y ago
  In Europe 100 miles is... an anglicism :-)
- rnatkins 8y ago
  In Europe 100 miles is nothing because nobody knows what a mile is.
pjc50 8y ago
It's the old town area only, of a city of 80,000 people.
loriverkutya 8y ago
with 80 000 people living there, it is not a village
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> 25 minutes on foot? It's more of a village than a city. you can walk from side to side of Paris in a tad more than one hour with a good rhythm, and two hours if you take it normally.

adrianN 8y ago
Paris is ~10km across. The metropole region around it is much larger.
boobsbr 8y ago
Considering Paris is roughly 10 km across North-South, that's about 12 min/km at an average human walking speed. So, this city is about 2 km across, which is very small, a village, considering smaller cities are more sparsely populated than an European metropolis.
- mattmanser 8y ago
  You're really fixated on this village thing. Drop into street view in the city centre and have a look around. It's not a village.
- ajuc 8y ago
  Depends on the country probably. In my country villages are very often https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_settlement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_settlement , going on for kilometers along some road, with farming land on both sides. Small to medium cities (< 100 000 people) are often very dense because they're mostly made out of commieblocks or old tenament houses. It's much easier to live without a car in a city. BTW: this village goes on for 20 km. It has 6000 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawoja https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawoja For comparison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionowo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionowo is the most densely populated city in Poland, it has about 50 000 people, and is about 3x5 km of low buildings. And still about 10% of the city is a forest :) Cars waste so much space that people are used to bloated cities.
- TheCoelacanth 8y ago
  1/25th the size of Paris is not what I would call a "village". Paris is a huge metropolis. It is a small-medium sized city. Additionally, Paris is not exactly a demonstration of how larger cities need cars considering that about 70% of its inhabitants commute without using a car at all.
PascLeRasc 8y ago
I'll settle for 3 hours and a croque-monsieur :)

fabatka 8y ago

Are you familiar with the saying "In Europe 100 miles is a long way, In the US 100 years is a long time"?

boobsbr 8y ago
No, but now I am.
scbrg 8y ago
In Europe 100 miles is... an anglicism :-)
rnatkins 8y ago
In Europe 100 miles is nothing because nobody knows what a mile is.

pjc50 8y ago

It's the old town area only, of a city of 80,000 people.

loriverkutya 8y ago

with 80 000 people living there, it is not a village

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