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The renderings did not help me visualise the real possibility. For perspective on how big 55,000 acres is, 640 per square mile, is 86 square miles, enough land
by bretpiatt 3y ago
The renderings did not help me visualise the real possibility.
For perspective on how big 55,000 acres is, 640 per square mile, is 86 square miles, enough land to hold the city limits of Choose 2 of 3: Paris, Barcelona, and San Francisco.
Paris city limits, 2.1 million residents, 41 square miles
Barcelona city limits, 1.6 million residents, 39 square miles
San Francisco city, 800k residents, 47 square miles
- ffhhttt 3y agoParis “city” is just the most heavily urbanized central core of a massive metropolitan area. The urban part of which is 1,101.7 sq mi. I’m not sure about Barcelona but San Francisco is pretty much like Paris in that way (just way leas dense). It’s really not a fair comparison.
- bretpiatt 3y agoParis the city is the city, if you're building a new city you build the city and the unincorporated areas around you grow on their own. If they're going to just build another The Woodlands (x2, they have twice this much land too) this isn't a very ambitious and transformative project, it's just a big fancy housing development with a Mayor and City Council instead of an HOA. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woodlands,_Texas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woodlands,_Texas
- ffhhttt 3y agoYou can’t expect the urban core of an entirely town to be even remotely as dense as that or a 10+ million city.
- xg15 3y agoThere is the old saying "for Europeans, 100 years is nothing; for Americans, 100 miles is nothing". So I'm not sure you can compare areas with radically different density. If I got all the debates about US zoning and building sensibilities right, then it's very unlikely they'll try to build high-density apartment blocks there like in Barcelona or Paris.
- timeon 3y agoIf they really want to create sustainable city, they need to count in density.