You will notice that the densest part of London is not hivelike apartment towers, but MANY SMALL BUILDINGS CLOSE TOGETHER Very important lesson here!https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/975530661816578049 …
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Haunted Forrest 🌲 Retweeted Wrath Of Gnon
You will notice that the densest part of London is not hivelike apartment towers, but MANY SMALL BUILDINGS CLOSE TOGETHER Very important lesson here!https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/975530661816578049 …
Haunted Forrest 🌲 added,
Where is their green space? Is there a green space ratio that is factored in your view of ideal planning? Examples?
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
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?
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.
urban density varies because, i'd assume, different parts of the city are built out at different times, under different conditions. undeveloped parts of cities would have been green(ish) by default, but not originally "parkland", technically
ya that's the other thing--when you're building w the expectation that most people will walk, you get a naturally high density and (at least pre-industrial age) still keep the countryside w/in walking distance of the city itself (see: Florence, Siena, etc)
i don't think there was ever an expectation that people would (only) walk. people always had pack and riding animals around. walking is the only alternative now because we don't use animals in cities anymore.
btw, have you read GANGS OF NEW YORK? very interesting stuff in there (if you haven't, it's a history of the development of new york, the scorcese movie just lifted some interesting tidbits from an old newpaper story included in it)
have not! mayb I should check it out
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