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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 11
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      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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 11
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      Most of the benefits are block level not agglomeration level. In per capita energy density terms a few blocks of 4-5 story buildings around a Whole Foods and trader joe is probably as good as a metro area high-rise. Don’t need bloody symphonies and football teams everywhere.

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        2. Sam Grover‏ @sambgrover Mar 11
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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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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 11
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          They still seem to prefer large cities

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        1. Nick Baum  🇸🇪‏Verified account @nickbaum Mar 11
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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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        1. Olaf Alex‏ @olaf_alex Mar 11
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          Agree!

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        1. Michael Buckley 🇨🇦‏ @michaelabuckley Mar 11
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          4-5 stories _is_ densification. How tall is Paris?

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        2. kennedy collins‏ @kennedycollins Mar 11
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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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        3. kennedy collins‏ @kennedycollins Mar 11
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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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        1. Alex Wagner‏ @alexdw5 Mar 11
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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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        2. Invert Avian‏ @Invert_Avian Mar 11
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          I assume you’ve seen a few @wrathofgnon tweets.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 11
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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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