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> When population goes up: positive - the area is vibrant economically; negative - rent is spiraling upwards out of control What's endlessly infuriating is pop
by akavi 4y ago
> When population goes up: positive - the area is vibrant economically; negative - rent is spiraling upwards out of control
What's endlessly infuriating is population going up in a city should be an almost unmitigated positive. It's just our unwillingness to allow building new housing turning it into a zero sum game that makes it a mixed bag.
- refurb 4y agoBut why? Are we aiming to have mega-cities of 15M people like Asia? I've been there, no thanks. It would be better if people move to other cities if SF doesn't make sense.
- visarga 4y agoBut does the transportation capacity also scale linearly with size?
- ellard 4y agoThe argument I usually see is that there would be less need for transportation as the removal of explicit zoning would be part of the effort for increasing density and that would put people closer to the goods and services that they want/need. (I don't have an opinion on this; the closest I ever got to city planning was playing Sim City)
- mupuff1234 4y agoI think we have plenty of working proof that mass transportation systems work at scale (NYC, Seoul, Tokyo, Berlin...)