Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically
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Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically
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Re: Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically
#2Love the visualizations.
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#3Different strokes for different folks. I’m a very happy single family home dweller. Living in a dense city feels claustrophobic.
Re: Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically
#4Great way to tell a story and bring data closer to the reader. Educational pages could learn a thing or two from this one.
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#5Spaniard here, I expected to see an infographic basically based around Madrid and Barcelona but it seems that special care has been taken to cover the whole country, kudos to El Diario team.
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#6Different strokes for different folks. I’m a very happy single family home dweller. Living in a dense city feels claustrophobic.
Indeed :) Living too far away from any metropolitan area makes me feel claustrophobic as there is usually very little social groups active in my favorite hobbies/niches unless near a city.
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#7Great analysis. I wonder if Spanish town planners have different powers than we do in the US. Town layouts are generally historical, you get to today by the sum of decisions potentially made decades or centuries or even millennia ago. It's very difficult to change a town layout drastically.
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#8Love the visualizations.
Yes, it was very beautiful.
As someone up in the dark pre-wintery Sweden, it would have been awesome with some floating photos of each neighborhood too, to convey the feel of each a bit better.
The 3D maps were initially very impressive, but photos would have made the various housing forms come to life even more, at least for me.
Re: Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically
#9Different strokes for different folks. I’m a very happy single family home dweller. Living in a dense city feels claustrophobic.
Indeed :) Living too far away from any metropolitan area makes me feel claustrophobic as there is usually very little social groups active in my favorite hobbies/niches unless near a city.
You really should look up the meaning of "claustrophobia"
Re: Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically
#10Very nice visualization, bit slow animations but overall it was informative and looked well!
It seems they're getting the data from the catastral (official goverment data), I wonder how accurate this is? Not sure how it is in other cities around in Spain, but in Barcelona there are a ton of illegal atticos and other addons to buildings, which would add more height to the building in real life compared to the visualization.
After a quick look, I could see at least two buildings I know are taller than what the visualization says (the building next door is the same height in the visualization, but has one more floor when you see the building in real-life).