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Old 02-11-2011, 02:57 PM
 
Location: The City
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Seattle's building a lot of midrise residential buildings in the inner city. It's a great town for it because it's a small area sandwiched between two bodies of water. Such a concentration makes it feel very urban. Lots of cities are building these types of buildings, but they're very spread out so they don't have the same feel.

This a very good point, concentration and connectivity are key
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Old 02-11-2011, 05:06 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C.
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This a very good point, concentration and connectivity are key
Anbody that has been to DC know's that dense housing and urbanity is not going to be a problem. DC is out of space so they are building up as much as congress allows. The long term goal is to pass 800,000 without any buildings over 14 stories. Downtown will be almost the whole city.
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Old 02-13-2011, 08:08 AM
 
Location: On the Rails in Northern NJ
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like this

Village at Valley Forge (http://www.mypinwheel.com/accounts/pw_05132001/links/index2.html - broken link)

or this

Master Plan - Philadelphia Navy Yard

or this

About the Piazza

or this
Master plan for Phila. waterfront development nearing | Philadelphia Business Journal



many neighborhoods also have mixed use development intertwined with the rowhouses but there is also new urbanist development
Now if only Septa restored and expanded its system , then we could really be talking Urban Renewal...
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Location: Western Massachusetts
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Anbody that has been to DC know's that dense housing and urbanity is not going to be a problem. DC is out of space so they are building up as much as congress allows. The long term goal is to pass 800,000 without any buildings over 14 stories. Downtown will be almost the whole city.
They had 800,000 people 40 years ago or so.
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Old 02-14-2011, 10:14 AM
 
Location: The Port City is rising.
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Anbody that has been to DC know's that dense housing and urbanity is not going to be a problem. DC is out of space so they are building up as much as congress allows. The long term goal is to pass 800,000 without any buildings over 14 stories. Downtown will be almost the whole city.

DC could easily hit 800,000 while still having lots of SFH's and rowhomes, I am pretty sure.
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Old 02-14-2011, 02:17 PM
 
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^ well of course, it was a fair amount above 800,000 people back in the 1950's. A lot of this has to do with housing sizes now compared to then.
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