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The thing is that such a "nice" city only works with a small population. For large cities you either build denser and ever denser areas or you spread out like c
by choeger 8y ago
The thing is that such a "nice" city only works with a small population. For large cities you either build denser and ever denser areas or you spread out like crazy with all the negative side effects.
Otoh here in Berlin we would benefit massively if we could live maybe up to 100km out of the city and travel fast and cleanly to, say, Tempelhof. Wenn have huge areas of land here where you can live a very nice life but work is in the city. Biking such distances is out of the question and roads and trains simply cannot connect all the places equally well.
- bobthepanda 8y agoWhat's wrong with dense? Plenty of livable places that are dense. Better to conserve land, nature and the environment than to destroy remaining areas where wildlife can thrive.
- choeger 8y agoDense means a strained infrastructure, congestion of daily life, and -not the least- makes it neigh impossible for average Joe to own some real estate. The last point is a severe factor for gentrification IMO. Now the countryside on the other hand is, at least here, partially empty. Population shrinks and villages collapse. The elderly live in deserted ghost towns. Existing infrastructure cannot maintained. This is not wild nature out there but rather a dystopia.
- icebraining 8y agoYou are confusing correlation for causation. Dense doesn't mean average Joe can't own real estate; it's just that both density and high prices are both effected by a common factor (high demand). But you plan for both density and affordability.