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Land is a finite resource, but buildings can be built up vertically. Unless your town looks like manhattan, land is not scarce for new housing.
by cycrutchfield 3y ago
Land is a finite resource, but buildings can be built up vertically. Unless your town looks like manhattan, land is not scarce for new housing.
- defrost 3y agoJust for the record, building vertically is also a finite solution, just as building sprawl is horizontally constrained, so to is vertical ( and subterranian ) expansion. Manhattan only exists due to Manhattan schist, exceptional bedrock due to old volcanic flow. Many locations have poor subsoil for tall buildings, even with the best foundations there are other limits to building height. There's a lot of potential space, sure, but not infinite space - it's finite on planet and bottlenecked by transport and terraforming off planet.