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That 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
by HPsquared 2y ago
That 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.