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Old 02-19-2014, 05:30 PM
 
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Nation built for cars not people
^^^^ to support the need to control other countries for oil! Shameful.
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Old 02-19-2014, 05:30 PM
 
Location: Centre Wellington, ON
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Better comparisons would be to Hamburg, Budapest and Vienna.
FYI I went through the numbers, and for the inner 50 square miles, it seems Hamburg is about the same as Boston (about 600,000?), Budapest about the same as San Francisco (about 800,000). Vienna is significantly denser, I got 1.05 million but we're already taking in fringe districts with rural portions, the inner 18 square miles have 650,000 people. Philadelphia's about 800,000-850,000 depending on where you put the boundaries.

Budapest's core is denser over a larger area than any of these American cities, but once you get outside of Hungaria Korut (ring road) densities drop off fast with lots of industrial areas and lower density railroad/streetcar suburbs. Hamburg's core looks decently dense, but then it drops off like Budapest. Hard to tell from street view how much was demolished in WWII, how much was rebuild similar to how it was before, and how much was rebuilt at lower densities.

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Old 02-19-2014, 08:12 PM
 
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You quoted me but your response didn't address what I was saying. You said that I said that Europe didn't have sprawl (that's not what I said). I said that Europe has denser sprawl than the U.S.
I'm not arguing that European cities are/were more dense than US sunbelt cities. That's obvious.

If you were implying that Europe does have sprawl but it's just denser than the US then I didn't pick up on it. If you actually wrote that at some point before I quoted you in a reply then I missed it (and couldn't find it on further inspection).

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And yes, it can be easily be argued that European cities are less car dependent than similar U.S. big cities. Going down the list from top to bottom, European metros have much higher transit shares than American metros. And if you think that greater densities have nothing to do with that, then I don't know what to tell you.
I didn't say that they weren't less car dependent so you don't need to tell me anything. What I said and what I meant is that Europe looks how it looks largely because they spent the first 30 years after the war rebuilding what was wrecked and when they were finished then they focused their resources on greenfields. Europe does have car dependent suburbs but they're a smaller piece of the puzzle and that's mostly because they have a larger percentage of the population living in the original urban core.

US cities were also dense in the 1940s. (They weren't medieval dense like some european cores but it's a joke to think that most Europeans live that way.) but we chased people out of our cities starting in the 1950s.

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None of those places come close to being as dense, walkable or transit-oriented as the majority of Parisian communes. The Northeast built rowhomes in neighborhoods that are still largely car-centric. Paris built towers. Arlington County has had TOD for maybe a decade (and still isn't nearly as dense and walkable as outer Paris).
You offered up "Clichy" as an example. I'm assuming that means Clichy-sous-bois and not Clichy-la-Garenne from where one can cross the street into the 18th arrondissement.

Clichy-sous-bois has 20,000 ppm. All of the examples I offered have similar towns and zip codes with densities of 12,000 to 45,000ppm.

"TODs" in NoVa are relevant if you live near the Metro. 395 is lined with towers out past the Pentagon that have shuttle buses to metro stations because they're nowhere near a metro stop. I'm not sure whey these places in the Parisian suburbs, built around RER stations in the 60s, 70s and 80s wouldn't qualify as TOD.
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Old 02-19-2014, 08:31 PM
 
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Use urban areas, which doesn't add lots of undeveloped land.

Paris urban area is 10.4 million people in 1098 square miles, roughly 10,000 ppm. The NYC urban area is 18.3 million people in 3450 square miles, 5,318 ppm.


18.3 million people is the NYC MSA which covers 6720 sq. mi. Where are you getting the data from to whittle that down to 3450 sq. mi?
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Old 02-19-2014, 08:36 PM
 
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How does the US stack up in that graph?

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I assume semi-detached includes row houses, no clue what other includes.
That's strange. semi-detached elsewhere implies a twin. Unless you're an "end of row" your rowhouse is attached on both sides.
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Old 02-19-2014, 10:24 PM
 
Location: Milwaukee Ex-ex-ex-urbs
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The assertions made in the article the link directs to are opinions. I don't agree with those opinions.

I'm afraid to say anything else.
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Old 02-19-2014, 10:24 PM
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18.3 million people is the NYC MSA which covers 6720 sq. mi. Where are you getting the data from to whittle that down to 3450 sq. mi?
The US census defined urban areas. MSAs are defined by county limits, why would you use them? The NYC urban area is in dark green:



The map is obviously wrong in that Staten Island should be part of the NYC urban area. But the generally boundaries are correct.
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Old 02-19-2014, 10:26 PM
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The assertions made in the article the link directs to are opinions. I don't agree with those opinions.
That's just like, your opinion, man!
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Old 02-19-2014, 10:39 PM
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How does the US stack up in that graph?
with strong regional variation:

https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hous...ric/units.html

60% detached, 6% attached (includes semi-detached?!), 26% apartment buildings, 7% (!) mobile homes

Interestingly, California (and many other western states) had a higher proportion of detached homes in 1950. The northeastern states, of course, had a lower proportion. Lowest in 1940 was NY State (32%). Exclude upstate and I suspect it would have been 25% or less. I've always been puzzled by the posters describing little difference between old urban housing and newer housing, with the main difference housing style and quality. I'm more used to mass detached housing being more of a postwar thing in big cities, and a minority of old housing stock.

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That's strange. semi-detached elsewhere implies a twin. Unless you're an "end of row" your rowhouse is attached on both sides.
I think it was just a mislabelling problem, another pdf I saw added "rowhouse" to the label. Semi-detached is the most common housing style in the UK but not by much. I think it's close to 1/3 attached, 1/3 detached, 1/3 detached. Apartment buildings aren't too common outside of London, another British weirdness.
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Old 02-20-2014, 06:50 AM
 
Location: Crooklyn, New York
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2.23 million for Berlin (around 3.5 million for London). That's more than Philly but not hugely so. Had Philadelphia not had lost housing stock to abandonment and urban renewal it would probably be pretty close (maybe 1.8 million?).
No. Philly and Boston were never close to being as dense as Berlin and London.

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The act increased the area of Berlin 13-fold from 66 km² (25.5 mi²) to 883 km² (341 mi²) and the population doubled from approximately 1.9 million to near 4 million, with almost 1.2 million of these new inhabitants coming from the 7 surrounding towns alone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Berlin_Act

That was a density of 74,608 ppsm in 1920. That's more than the number of people within the city of Philadelphia in 1920 (1,823,779/13,610 ppsm). You're really talking about a density that's more on par with Manhattan than Philadelphia.

It's the same thing with London. If you grind it down to its leanest and meanest 40 sq. miles or so, it would be a blow out. Even taking that 3.5 million stat for London, that's basically Chicago's peak population stuffed into Philadelphia. That is a HUGE difference.

And these are just the objective standards. There are also the subjective ones relating to these cities' walkability and built environment. In this regard, Barcelona and Paris are dense and mixed-use in a way that Manhattan is not.
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