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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 v
by 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 agoYou'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 agoDepends 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 ago1/25th 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.