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Granted, American suburbs are in poor shape. Question is, what is a viable vision for the future? Hong Kong (17.3k people / sqmile) or s'Hertogenbosch (3.6k peo
by bookofsand 5y ago
Granted, American suburbs are in poor shape. Question is, what is a viable vision for the future? Hong Kong (17.3k people / sqmile) or s'Hertogenbosch (3.6k people / sqmile)?
Packing millions of jobs in a handful of downtown sq miles, and then expecting that all the millions of commuters and their dependents live in a circle with 30 minutes access to downtown by bike cannot be physically satisfied by duplexes. Only a high density setup akin to Hong Kong may work. I know of no one, especially no one with kids, who would rather live in Hong Kong than a low density urban environment like s'Hertogenbosch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Hong_Kong#/media/File:Hong_Kong_Harbour_Night_2019-06-11.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_H...
- sudosysgen 5y agoAnswer : neither. Montréal has a density of 11.7k people per square mile. The vast majority of Montréal is duplexes. It works. Duplexes have a high density. Perhaps now that you know that duplexes are closer in density to Hong Kong than to SFH, you can understand how most people live 30 mins away by bike from downtown. Not all jobs are or have to be downtown either, it's just that a lot are.