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Density == crime? There exist dense cities in the world that don't have a crime problem.
How dense is your city?
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#12Interesting, NYC vs Tokyo. NYC is winning up until 20km. We need higher density queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and Jersey. I don't think this takes into account water around cities. For NYC harbour south of downtown pull us down?
Is higher density “winning?”
Better for the planet, better food and cultural options, shorter travel times for typical daily activities... in my book it definitely is.
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It takes a lot of resources to provide modern amenities like clean water, sanitary sewers, electricity, gas, telecom lines, roads, etc. Economies of scale make it cheaper to provide these things if people live closer together.
I live where wells, septic systems, and propane delivery by truck are the norm. Even the highways in the state were originally privately built and are maintained largely by tolls.
It seems like there would be a tipping range where it would be a toss-up whether it was more efficient to handle these things individually or in bulk, and I wonder how cities make the decision. Like, it would be wildly impractical to run pipes to every house at one density, but equally impractical to drill wells for every occupant at another density.
I'm now curious how places decide when it's time to make the switch, and how they do it!
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Because none of those things are linked. Most cities around the world have pretty extensive parklands, botanic gardens, and public transport links to nature reserves. Crime is area dependent, not density. And noise is mostly linked to car traffic, which is often reduced in higher density areas.
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#15Love this!
Fyi I noticed Kaohsiung was listed incorrectly as Kaohsiung (China) instead of Kaohsiung (Taiwan). Strange as Taipei was listed correctly as Taipei (Taiwan).
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Because none of those things are linked. Most cities around the world have pretty extensive parklands, botanic gardens, and public transport links to nature reserves. Crime is area dependent, not density. And noise is mostly linked to car traffic, which is often reduced in higher density areas.
Car traffic might be reduced per capita in higher density areas, but all of it is concentrated and is right near all the people. Multiply by the sirens of ambulance and police that are constantly going somewhere. Compare to a dead-end suburb street which only 5-10 cars have any reason for driving at all.
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#17Interesting how San Francisco has almost the same density as NYC when you get to 2km. I wonder if this has to do with density of old neighborhoods surrounding fidi out-densitying most hoods in nyc
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#18It’s really helpful to have such a visualisation tool. I’ve felt Mumbai as being quite dense (partially because of the sea around it), and throwing a few “most dense cities” like Dhaka/Manila/Tokyo/Jakarta so far still results in Mumbai having the highest cumulative density values (made much more explicit when excluding large water bodies).
Question/challenge: can anyone find any other city with a greater density? Dhaka is close but has a lower peak and tapers off faster.
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#19It’s really helpful to have such a visualisation tool. I’ve felt Mumbai as being quite dense (partially because of the sea around it), and throwing a few “most dense cities” like Dhaka/Manila/Tokyo/Jakarta so far still results in Mumbai having the highest cumulative density values (made much more explicit when excluding large water bodies). Question/challenge: can anyone find any other city with a greater density? Dh…
The Hong Kong core, makes sense because the HK core is super-dense
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#20It’s really helpful to have such a visualisation tool. I’ve felt Mumbai as being quite dense (partially because of the sea around it), and throwing a few “most dense cities” like Dhaka/Manila/Tokyo/Jakarta so far still results in Mumbai having the highest cumulative density values (made much more explicit when excluding large water bodies). Question/challenge: can anyone find any other city with a greater density? Dh…
The Hong Kong core, makes sense because the HK core is super-dense
Nice find! Yes, makes a lot of sense that HK is also going to be dense. And it’s islandic geography could explain why it drops off.