Yea I phrased this wrong, you're right of course. What I meant to say was that the highly urbanized areas in which these 200 year old apartment blocks stand wer

Yea I phrased this wrong, you're right of course. What I meant to say was that the highly urbanized areas in which these 200 year old apartment blocks stand were already urbanized back then, while newer apartment blocks are probably in areas that were pastures or villages back then. So it wouldn't have made sense to build high density apartment blocks there 200 years ago. European capitals are some of the few places that had this kind of urbanization 200 years ago.