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Or dense urban housing. But we're not allowed to criticize that, right. Homes with yards and green space are evil!
by Solvency 3y ago
Or dense urban housing. But we're not allowed to criticize that, right. Homes with yards and green space are evil!
- chownie 3y agoThis doesn't follow? The co2 level indoors is decided far more by whether you have the windows open (or perhaps if you're cooking) than whether you have people living close by to you.
- goosejuice 3y agoMany high rises in urban areas have few windows that open and poor ventilation for cooking. There is a relationship, although maybe not as large as parent is implying.
- paulsutter 3y agoCO2 levels are high in enclosed spaces, not in urban environments
- RobotToaster 3y agoPeople who live in urban environments statistically spend less time outdoors.
- jogjayr 3y agoCitation? Won't people who live in small apartments need to go out more often for necessities? I know I did.
- hombre_fatal 3y agoIn US cities, going for groceries barely entails time spent outside. You drive your mobile living room to the store and back.
- jogjayr 3y agoThe person I replied was speaking specifically about urban areas.
- 0xcde4c3db 3y agoDid your source consider time spent in vehicles to be "indoors", "outdoors", or its own category? It definitely makes a difference.
- SkyPuncher 3y agoOddly, I've suspected the opposite. In my eyes, people who live in urban areas walk for transportation far more often than suburbanites.
- kiba 3y agoActually, roads and parking garage and driveways take up spaces that could be used for parks and greenery. You could have tramways with grassy cover, for example. Every time when I drive to anywhere, I am surrounded by five lane stroads. By removing all these spaces for cars, you could add back in green spaces. Houses with backyards can still exists, but they will be closer together. Parks will be closer and more accessible. Plus you can design buildings to have green spaces, or at least support plants. Special consideration would be needed to make rooftop of buildings green, especially when you have to consider the weight and wind. Space efficiency in urbanism is the key to reclaiming green spaces in our urban context.
- Solvency 3y agowhen did I say anything about cars? I say to hell with all cars, replace everything with bicycles and electric scooters. Then we can use lightrail to connect larger communities to one another.
- klausa 3y agoYou’ll have lower CO2 levels in a dense urban housing with windows open, than in a home in the middle of nowhere with the windows closed. The issue isn’t the higher amount of CO2 in the ambient air in the cities (AIUI it is; marginally; but it doesn’t matter); it’s that CO2 is very good at concentrating in enclosed spaces.
- Solvency 3y agoliterally only in the currently designed world dominated by large cars, which is equally outrageous. Nuke the entire nonsense system we have, let people have homes in yards, and force everyone to get around on bicycles and electric scooters and electric accessibility carts.
- klausa 3y agoI'm confused; what changes to indoor CO2 levels do you think that would bring?