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Paris is pretty dense already ! In the top 10 cities : https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-world-s-most-densely-populated-cities.html https://www.worldatlas
by bouh 7y ago
Paris is pretty dense already ! In the top 10 cities : https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-world-s-most-densely-populated-cities.html https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-world-s-most-densely...
High towers cannot be put everywhere
- MiroF 7y ago> High towers cannot be put everywhere Why not?
- BeniBoy 7y agoThe ground. Paris's ground is not strong enough to support high rise building especially in the southern part, where a lot of it have been excavated in the last 500 years (and filled with dead bodies, ie the catacombs). Of course with clever engineering everything is possible, but that really limits the development of such towers. It is true that the main limitation still is the construction code, which preserves the global proportion of the city.
- Scoundreller 7y agoThe usual approach is to punch pilings into bedrock. Nothing new really. Hollow shafts might be an issue, but nothing a stroke of the pen won't solve.
- lazyasciiart 7y agoGets a lot more complicated when you have tunnels everywhere already.
- Scoundreller 7y agoThat’s what I meant by shafts. You could fill them, but dunno how kosher that is. It’s not like they’re open to the public or anything. I believe you can take the catacombs under Montparnasse station, so it’s a solved problem ( I hope ).
- lazyasciiart 7y agoI'm not at all sure what you mean. There is no way you could fill the catacombs, if that's what you're suggesting. And how does having catacombs under montparnasse show that you can put pilings through train tunnels?
- CyanBird 7y agoBecause they worsen traffic, as they create high density traffic zones which then need to have bigger highways around it, then you have got the fact that Paris's low city profile is a monument on itself, so city administrators don't want to disturb that too much, then there's the issue of physical construction of em as paris is a river bank city, quite sandy ground iirc Paris does have areas which have high rise office buildings tho, it is just not the zones people know much about because they are not the touristic areas
- stale2002 7y agoHong Kong seems to be able to make tall buildings work, with as massively increased density, in comparison to paris. > Paris does have areas which have high rise office buildings tho Then maybe more buildings should be built in this area.
- AdrianB1 7y agoHong Kong is an ugly, overcrowded city that works in a part of the world where the personal space is up to your skin, but Paris is a nice city that has a lot of visitors (and tourism $) because of that. Make Paris look like Hong Kong and you kill it.
- stale2002 7y agoAll I am hearing from you is "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded!"
- selimthegrim 7y agoSurely the locals go out into the mountains and villages for recreation?
- franckl 7y agoa lot of parisians like me find them very ugly and there's already not enough garden and green spaces to out to.
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