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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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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.
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 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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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.
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