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High-rises aren't generally more efficient in terms of space than low-rises. Urban centers should be primarily large numbers of low-rise multi-housing complexes
by ryan_lane 2y ago
High-rises aren't generally more efficient in terms of space than low-rises. Urban centers should be primarily large numbers of low-rise multi-housing complexes, which don't necessarily need to be owned by corporations. Ideally they'd be co-ops, and those co-ops would allow subletting.
- HPsquared 2y agoThat doesn't make sense to me. If you stack 30 floors of apartments or offices, surely that takes roughly 10x less land (except extra space for elevators) than stacking them to 3 floors.
- ryan_lane 2y agoA relatively large percentage of the space in a high rise is wasted: https://westnorth.com/2015/04/27/high-rises-land-efficient-but-not-floorspace-efficient/ https://westnorth.com/2015/04/27/high-rises-land-efficient-b... They also tend to be more expensive and use considerably more resources to build and maintain. Obviously any form of multi-tenant space is more efficient than single-family housing, but there's a sweet spot somewhere between single-family and high rise that's the most space efficient.