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Think miles per person per day. More dense means everything is closer.

• mschuster91 5y ago
  Dense housing is only dense housing, if people still need to commute half an hour or more to their workplaces dense housing is only creating traffic issues. Transport infrastructure (roads, buses, railroads, trams), housing, everyday service infrastructure (supermarkets, medical services, restaurants, haircutters) and employment infrastructure needs to be planned holistically or you're just shifting between problems - in the case of only going for denser housing, you'll lower homelessness a bit but get traffic issues in return. And on top of that, city planning needs to take entrenched interests into account. Often enough NIMBYist complaints are founded in real fears of exploding traffic or a loss in property value - but these can be counteracted and compensated, if one is willing to.
  • newsclues 5y ago
    Why can’t you have dense office, retail and housing space (can even be in the same building)? Dense industrial areas are hard
    • jjav 5y ago
      > Why can’t you have dense office, retail and housing space (can even be in the same building)? I'd love that too, but it's not happening. FAANG isn't building their new HQ campus into the first floor of a new apartment complex. It'll be where it'll be and we'll have to fight through ever increasing traffic to get there.
  • 0x000000E2 5y ago
    Dense housing naturally causes businesses to move closer. I don't know of any cities where a dense urban core isn't also filled with businesses and very walkable. It will naturally happen if they allow dense housing