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There is a happy medium here... I'm as density-friendly as it comes, but I think that we'd be much better off at maximum 20,000/sq km or so. (That's not a mag
by ebiester 3y ago
There is a happy medium here...
I'm as density-friendly as it comes, but I think that we'd be much better off at maximum 20,000/sq km or so.
(That's not a magic number - that's about the density of the city of Paris, ignoring inner ring and outer ring. That's average across Paris, mind you, not some absolute maximum.)
Oakland is 3,000ish per sq km, for reference. Now, I'd prefer that we don't have to live in the 400 sq ft/40 sq meters kind of options that are older Parisian apartments, and I think that proper sound insulation is ground stakes (which current 5 over 1s in America don't do a great job with) but I think we can make the argument of more density without pushing for the extreme argument here.
- maherbeg 3y agoIt'd be amazing if we got to Paris style density in half of the top 20 cities in the US. I just haven't seen great ideas or plans to transform the heavily car dependent sun belt cities into denser places.
- lotsoweiners 3y agoMaybe but you’ve gotta consider that a lot of people want to live in say Denver or Dallas because they aren’t dense. If I wanted a New York City or San Francisco type of lifestyle I’d move to one of those places. If the demand was there, less dense places will become more dense naturally without ideas or schemes to force it.
- Karrot_Kream 3y agoSoundproofing hasn't historically been a part of US building codes is why it's not done here. California added an optional Soundproofing part of the code but cities must opt into it. Oakland is actually one of the few cities in California which has.