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Up to 60 floors / 20,000 people in an apartment building? I didn't realize that existed. I don't think you'd find an apartment building in the US that has even

Up to 60 floors / 20,000 people in an apartment building? I didn't realize that existed. I don't think you'd find an apartment building in the US that has even a fraction of that. The largest hotel in New York is the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. It has 49 floors / 1,949 rooms, which I don't think comes close to 20,000 people; I couldn't find the exact occupancy.

jmduke 13y ago
The Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town in New York has eleven thousand tenants, which is at least a fraction.
- devy 13y ago
  But that's the ENTIRE residential development block - NOT a single building as denoted in the original post. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Stuyvesant_Town_and_Peter_Cooper_Village_crop.jpg/1116px-Stuyvesant_Town_and_Peter_Cooper_Village_crop.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Stu...
  - nerfhammer 13y ago
    According to cousin comments this stat is per development block
nostromo 13y ago
I found a mention online that the average household size in Hong Kong is 3 people (in 2006). So that's 20,000 people over 60 floors, 3 per apartment. That's 100 apartments on a floor! They must be incredibly compact if those numbers are correct.
- meric 13y ago
  It's actually usually a set of half a dozen same shaped buildings. See the first image in the article.
- ddeck 13y ago
  The 20k figure would be referring to the development, which would be several "blocks" (i.e. independent buildings crammed next to each other). The average household size is still 3 (bit lower in public housing) with average living space per person of ~140 square feet. Keep in mind that those 140 square feet are measured based on the outside of the building!
evertonfuller 13y ago
Huh? The W Times Square has 55 floors.
VLM 13y ago
US Naval academy, the entire 4000 person university lives in one gigantic dorm building. That's the largest dorm I can think of, at least in the USA. I've never seen it personally, but I've heard its spectacular and seen some interesting pictures of the luxurious common areas. If you permit skywalks to make one large building, technically most of downtown Minneapolis and (I think?) Toronto would be one big building. If you define "a building" as you can walk from one place to another indoors. I don't think interaction scales as well as some think, I lived in a 13 floor roughly 600 person dorm at university and as I think back I never set foot on perhaps a third of the floors, and spent the vast majority of my time on just two floors. So making it 100 floors tall would primarily mean I'd almost never visit about 90 of the floors rather than almost never visiting about 10 of them. This also happens horizontally, not just vertically. I live in a 580 square mile county. I spend the vast majority of my time, probably over 99%, in about 4 of those 580 square miles. That's just kind of how life is, lots of sleeping, gathering and consuming food, working, raising/educating kids... I believe my county nears the size of the state of Rhode Island, however I don't think social interaction is much different merely because the lines on a map are closer together. I have lived rural, suburban, and urban, and my limited observation is ignoring each other is a defense mechanism. So in rural areas we were all practically blood brothers simply by virtue of being neighbors, but in urban apartments I would not even know my neighbors names. Suburban is somewhere in between.

jmduke 13y ago

The Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town in New York has eleven thousand tenants, which is at least a fraction.

devy 13y ago
But that's the ENTIRE residential development block - NOT a single building as denoted in the original post. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Stuyvesant_Town_and_Peter_Cooper_Village_crop.jpg/1116px-Stuyvesant_Town_and_Peter_Cooper_Village_crop.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Stu...
- nerfhammer 13y ago
  According to cousin comments this stat is per development block

nostromo 13y ago

I found a mention online that the average household size in Hong Kong is 3 people (in 2006). So that's 20,000 people over 60 floors, 3 per apartment. That's 100 apartments on a floor! They must be incredibly compact if those numbers are correct.

meric 13y ago
It's actually usually a set of half a dozen same shaped buildings. See the first image in the article.
ddeck 13y ago
The 20k figure would be referring to the development, which would be several "blocks" (i.e. independent buildings crammed next to each other). The average household size is still 3 (bit lower in public housing) with average living space per person of ~140 square feet. Keep in mind that those 140 square feet are measured based on the outside of the building!

evertonfuller 13y ago

Huh? The W Times Square has 55 floors.

VLM 13y ago

US Naval academy, the entire 4000 person university lives in one gigantic dorm building. That's the largest dorm I can think of, at least in the USA. I've never seen it personally, but I've heard its spectacular and seen some interesting pictures of the luxurious common areas. If you permit skywalks to make one large building, technically most of downtown Minneapolis and (I think?) Toronto would be one big building. If you define "a building" as you can walk from one place to another indoors. I don't think interaction scales as well as some think, I lived in a 13 floor roughly 600 person dorm at university and as I think back I never set foot on perhaps a third of the floors, and spent the vast majority of my time on just two floors. So making it 100 floors tall would primarily mean I'd almost never visit about 90 of the floors rather than almost never visiting about 10 of them. This also happens horizontally, not just vertically. I live in a 580 square mile county. I spend the vast majority of my time, probably over 99%, in about 4 of those 580 square miles. That's just kind of how life is, lots of sleeping, gathering and consuming food, working, raising/educating kids... I believe my county nears the size of the state of Rhode Island, however I don't think social interaction is much different merely because the lines on a map are closer together. I have lived rural, suburban, and urban, and my limited observation is ignoring each other is a defense mechanism. So in rural areas we were all practically blood brothers simply by virtue of being neighbors, but in urban apartments I would not even know my neighbors names. Suburban is somewhere in between.