Where is their green space? Is there a green space ratio that is factored in your view of ideal planning? Examples?
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the neighborhood is riddled with gardens and parks--but even if this weren't the case..."green space" is a badly overrated aspect of cities, mainly championed by people who don't want to live in cities in the first place. Green embellishment (see pics) > green spacepic.twitter.com/yTBfZCFGaK
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but this isn't true, is it? olmstead designed the emerald necklace and central park in the mid 19th century, boston common's been around forever, hyde park, etc in london have been open to the public since the 1600s. historically, urban density was in no way uniform - was it?
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Urban density is rarely uniform because different parts of the city are more or less valuable to live in (due to proximity, industry, amenity, etc). Open space is also a historic constant in cities--but open GREEN space is relative novelty. The plaza, forum, market, etc are trad.
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Cities are obviously much older than the 1600s--what are the famous parks of Rome or Damascus? Chang'an or Hangzhou? etc etc
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oh, sure - don't know, just reached for evidence close at hand. i guess the hanging gardens of babylon are pretty famous, though.
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certainly! but I also understand that they were something unusual for their time, not widely imitated
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On the other hand, Baltimore row houses, white marble steps and all.pic.twitter.com/LIA7U0GLsN
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yes bc this is not a two-way relationship; good urbanism means small buildings close together, but small buildings close together don't automatically mean good urbanism
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For me, houses sitting on 60’ wide lots in my neighborhood are just a bit claustrophobic.
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then I would suggest not moving to a major city
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Even when Baltimore pretended to be a major city, housing density varied greatly from neighborhood to neighborhood. The same is true here. Densepack housing doesn’t make a city “major.”
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ya no kidding you can have nice walkable towns even with under 1000 residents but you'll find fewer spacious lots in highly-demanded cities (which makes them major--not just their raw population size)pic.twitter.com/2KdcyTp9lL
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You can have nice walkable towns especially with under 1000 residents.
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sure they're not too claustrophobic?
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so, how is this not a hive? seems like a hive to me, but from before modern engineering allowed us to more trivially build high.
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what's the difference, to you, between a "hive" and a "warren", I guess?
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Hives are for insects, warrens are for mammals
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and it's much less dense than Paris and NIMBY regulations make it hard to build up and housing prices went way up in the last 15 years
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