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Dense urban living also requires most of your surroundings to be pavement.
by hnal943 7y ago
Dense urban living also requires most of your surroundings to be pavement.
- jcranmer 7y agoCompare a picture of Kansas City to one of Manhattan. In Kansas City, there are entire city blocks in the middle of downtown solely dedicated to parking, and more blocks that are given to massive highways to move people downtown. In Manhattan, there is virtually no given space given to such endeavors.
- hnal943 7y agoManhattan's landscape is concrete and (steel and glass). It's hardly pastoral.
- crooked-v 7y agoSure, but literally everyone in Manhattan is only a short subway ride away from Central Park.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoNYC has a surprising number of parks.
- cylinder 7y agoNot Manhattan. Outside of Central Park there's not much green space at all. Midtown south, Flatiron, Downtown, etc have nothing! They may have paved urban parks but there's simply not enough green space per person, and that's a choice they've made historically based on greed. People need accessible green space for use on a daily basis near their homes, not requiring long subway rides back uptown to Central Park.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoMidtown had a bunch of small parks nestled between roads in lots of places near Columbia U.
- cylinder 7y agoColumbia U is pretty far uptown, not midtown. Small pocket parks don't really cut it, people need to be able to go for walks under trees and maybe a sporting field or two.
- cryptonector 7y agoThere are many small parks in Manhattan in addition to Central Park.
- the_gastropod 7y agoThe Flatiron building is literally one block away from Madison Square Park...
- cylinder 7y agoI am well familiar with my old stomping ground Madison Square Park. Not what I'd call a proper park by any means. It's a series of benches around a lawn. Nice to sit and people watch, but that's about it.
- NovemberWhiskey 7y agoThe Battery Conservancy has 25 acres of parkland downtown at the tip of lower Manhattan; most of which is green.
- novok 7y agoGo to tokyo, it's less paved than LA in many places!
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- MrAlex94 7y agoHave you never been to old European cities? They’re beautiful and dense. Hell, even London has many parts that are dense compared to US cities yet are beautifully old and green (like Hampstead and Highgate!). At the end of it, we live in a world where every bit of profit matters more than earning slightly less and having something better looking. I mean let’s compare Los Angeles County vs Greater London: 4,058 sq mi vs 606 sq mi Density 2,100/sq m vs 14,550/sq mi. I mean the difference is insane! And ignoring the towers springing up all over London because of greedy developers, London doesn’t feel all that cramped or as if there’s concrete everywhere. US cities need better public transport and more dense areas. Leave the rest to nature!
- WalterBright 7y ago> greedy developers What's wrong with people building things that others want to buy?
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- ambernightcrush 7y agoWhat's wrong is that there is no profit in selling real estate and housing at below market value, by definition. And in places like the bay, market rents are not affordable to an increasingly large population. Hence, the greedy perception. Developers are acting in self interest and the old system of financing predicated continuous wage growth.
- WalterBright 7y agoNot building towers will result in even higher prices for housing.
- MrAlex94 7y agoAt least in the UK the price per square foot greatly increases after each new build that replaces an older one. Surely prices would go down? You can even verify yourself. Go on a property portal such as Zoopla or Rightmove and compare the cost of a new build and old build in the same area. I have yet to find one where the new build is cheaper per square foot.
- maccard 7y agoIt absolutely doesn't. It does if you mandate the only transport option to be low density, but pretty much every European city begs to differ
- crooked-v 7y agoParis is one of the highest-density cities in the world... and even then, the city by area is more than half parkland.