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....I was saying Singapore displayed foresight and ran themselves well. My point was that American cities have generally lacked such foresight. It would have
by graeme 7y ago
....I was saying Singapore displayed foresight and ran themselves well.
My point was that American cities have generally lacked such foresight.
It would have been a mistake for Singapore to build things around the car, and it has been a mistake for San Francisco to use restrictive zoning and car central planning.
In fairness, SF proper is dense, but it's tiny. The surrounding area is not dense.
>A high population in a small geographic area is what creates the necessity of high-density housing.
American cities pre-car were generally as dense as European cities. They chose the car intensive route post war. Europe initially went down that path, then pulled back. And Singapore was wise enough not to pursue it.
Their geography surely focussed minds a bit, but they could have made bad choices rather than good ones. Many cities have.
- clouddrover 7y ago> American cities pre-car were generally as dense as European cities. Nope. Even after a massive population increase in the last ten years of the 19th century, New York was still only half as populous as London in 1900: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_London
- graeme 7y agoI said dense, not populous. Density incorporates the area you're settled in. You can see in those charts that both nyc and london had peak density in 1950, as their populations declined after that point, while their area didn't increased. They both reversed that trend around 1990. NYC has a much higher density than london though: 27,751/sq mi vs. 14,670/sq mi This was probably roughly accurate in relative terms around 1950 as well, as NYC and London had similar populations in different areas back then. Singapore increased its density consistently and greatly in the same time period.
- clouddrover 7y ago> Density incorporates the area you're settled in ... NYC has a much higher density than london though: 27,751/sq mi vs. 14,670/sq mi So you admit being pro-car or anti-car has nothing to do with it. Good.