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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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
For me, houses sitting on 60’ wide lots in my neighborhood are just a bit claustrophobic.
then I would suggest not moving to a major city
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.”
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
You can have nice walkable towns especially with under 1000 residents.
sure they're not too claustrophobic?
Just because they have a small population doesn’t mean they’re small. Of course, knowing your neighbors too well can be a problem. Fences work well for that.
I mean the house sizes; you said 60' lots felt claustrophobic
Notice all the commercial activity on the bottom floor in those London neighborhoods.
that too! commerce is the thing that makes cities tick; you must be able to have small shops in or near residential neighborhoods or else they won't work very well
People don't understand how much the thing that makes suburbs increasingly more unbearable as one leaves the city central is simply no easy access to all those shops. I was a regular figure at nearby restaurants when I lived in the city, commerce creates human relationships.
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