Densification is central to climate action dogma but I wonder how necessary it really is. Perhaps it is to low-energy urbanism what hub-and-spoke was assumed to be for airlines before Southwest showed a different way could work.
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Yeah, don't like them. I'm very suspicious of trad fetishism. If there's good in those chesterton fences, I'd rather recover them from first principles in a world where modern construction and architecture aren't dismissed out of hand as non-fractal profanity.
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this is exactly what most urbanists are calling for when they talk about density - you're making the boomer mistake of thinking it's high rise or nothing
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They still seem to prefer large cities
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A lot of the new urbanist crew advocate for polycentric cities made up of small cities-within-a-city; with the rise of online communities and remote work there’s no reason those small urban quarters can’t spread out into a “sprawl” of villages connected by trains/roads.pic.twitter.com/qDBui6B0Ni
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Here’s a few more illustrations. All are from Leon Krier, who (cc
@tomcritchlow) is probably the best visual explainer of ideas I’ve ever seen.pic.twitter.com/q7l4V3reL6
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Here’s a cynical take but I feel that symphonies and football teams are basically just vehicles for capital for the ultra-rich and we could have a lot less of them and be fine.
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This sounds a lot like the typical neighborhood in Stockholm. 4-5 stories is such a nice scale. It's still nice to have access to the museum or the great new restaurant across town, but with the internet, these neighborhood clusters can probably be spaced further apart.
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Agree!
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4-5 stories _is_ densification. How tall is Paris?
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