One of the things I’ve flipped polarity on is dense, vertically built-up neourbanism. While I don’t want a return to suburbia, I think there’s ways to get same economic and sustainability effects without being so damn cramped
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there was an interesting graphic posted a few? months ago showing the similar block-densities achieved by european (mid rise, full block) & asian styles (high rise w/ lawn)
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aha here:
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Chinese and American developments build to similar densities, despite radically different form factors twitter.com/alfred_twu/sta
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I guess my point being.. you can get pretty dense w/ just mid rise, and I feel like it works quite well (a la paris? as the canonical example)
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