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How about stop pretending like we don't have enough land in the Bay Area. The entire population of the bay area could live within the borders of San Jose, with
by darksaints 7y ago
How about stop pretending like we don't have enough land in the Bay Area. The entire population of the bay area could live within the borders of San Jose, with room for a million more, if it were built at the density of Paris. Land Use is the problem, not quantity.
- NegativeLatency 7y agoI read a really interesting article about how Paris was transformed to how it looks today > Baron Haussmann was the man responsible for the city’s new look. The Paris prefect had no background in architecture or urban planning when he started his project in 1852 under Napoleon III. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/old-paris-no-more/ https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/old-paris-no-mor...
- siruncledrew 7y agoYea, it’s pretty stupid that filling in 50mi^2 of water bodies with soil, retaining all of that land, and then building on top of it is the smarter thing to do than re-developing current land to fit changing needs. The Bay Area could also just build taller buildings with more living space on land they already have in a denser area. Also, I like that the article complains about how bad sprawl is, and then their solution is basically create sprawl from new land.
- raldi 7y agoOr even allow apartments within existing height limits in the places where only 40' single-family houses are allowed.
- Liron 7y agoI suspect you're suffering from status quo bias. Try flipping the situation around: imagine we have this same area as undeveloped land, with a button that magically converts it into the current Bay. Would you prefer to develop the land or not?