What is the BEST Density for Cities?

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  @Icy_Flame01 · 3 months ago (edited)

  I think the Gentle density ( 5-6 story building) with the ground floor having commercial like cafes and stores with Bus/ Tram as Transport are great for any City.<br><br>Edit : Thanks for the Likes guys

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  @Western_1 · 3 months ago

  Vienna, Austria seems to check most people&apos;s boxes density wise.

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  @FrostyDog9186 · 3 months ago

  By these numbers, my neighborhood of townhomes and apartments should have light rail. We actually have a bus every 60 minutes on weekdays that doesn’t run after 9pm.

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  @Ndragonawa · 3 months ago

  The neat thing about increasing density in some areas is that it preserves the lower densities for those that want it.

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  @decombobulated27 · 3 months ago

  Great video, but please use metric alongside imperial! Having to convert everything to sq km just to understand the scale is a bit of a pain.

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  @qwertyca · 3 months ago

  Tall towers are wonderful to live in at the upper floors though - you get great views, without all the noise from street level, but are typically only 2 mins by elevator away from the street.

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  @Odd_Taxi_epi04 · 3 months ago

  Houten in Netherlands is a example of lower density suburb that still transit oriented. Average density of the urban area is 6k people/km², most buildings are single family homes and there is a lot of green areas, but around the train stations it&apos;s denser with apartments and commerce. And one thing that makes the lower density work is using bicycles to solve the last mile problem, instead of buses.

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  @gRocketOne · 3 months ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkACy-kAzvs&amp;t=388">6:28</a> -- FYI &quot;5 over 1&quot; doesn&apos;t actually refer to 5 floors of residential over 1 floor of retail. Rather, it&apos;s based off of North American building codes -- up to 5 floors of wood-frame construction (IBC type III or type V) on top of one floor of fire-resistant steel-frame/concrete (Type I). The bottom floor can be retail, but it&apos;s often a parking garage, building amenities, more residential units, or a mix.

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  @dylanwinn3 · 3 months ago

  5 over 1 actually doesn&apos;t refer to the number of floors, it refers to ibc type 5 (wood-frame) construction over type 1 (fireproof)

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  @TheGreatSovietUnion2 · 3 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkACy-kAzvs&amp;t=518">08:38</a> &nbsp; I live in a 30 floor tower and I am always connected to street level via my elevator. I can hear the music and people, smell the food, and take the elevator down and go for a walk in my neighbourhood. Height has no impact on my relationship to my neighbourhood, and I have an amazing view (being higher than the other towers) and I live near the top floor... I still feel very connected.

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  @stephanrichard7006 · 3 months ago

  Shoutout to the dutch model which maintains lower density in its cities compared Paris or Madrid yet maintains higher than average density outside its cities which creates a sense of tranquility and liveliness across most of its built up areas

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  @icomefromcanadia2783 · 3 months ago

  Tokyo achieves massive density with primarily 3-6 floor residential buildings on side streets, with most businesses along main streets. IMO this is the way to go. Tokyo can have crazy busy streets, but then you turn a corner and it&apos;s totally quiet and clearly primarily residential so ppl respect the conditions. <br>By contrast, I live in downtown Vancouver, where we have primarily 20+ story buildings all throughout downtown and I&apos;ll tell you it is WAY louder and less enjoyable because when buildings are over 10 stories cars and pedestrians stop realising they&apos;re on a primarily residential block; you start feeling invisible when buildings are at that height or taller because it&apos;s past &quot;human scale&quot;. It also seems to make housing more expensive because the city is progressively rezoned to allow that increased density in small patchwork changes, one neighbourhood at a time. This drives up the value of the land as suddenly you&apos;re allowed giant dense towers, as opposed to Tokyo where basically the entire city would technically allow it, but it&apos;s not worth it because it&apos;s cheaper to build 5 cheap low rises on cheaper land than 1 giant concrete monster on small patches of prime high-density-allowed land.

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