04-28-2022, 11:05 PM
(04-28-2022, 09:40 PM)nms Wrote: I don't know if I first came across it here, but apparently Vincennes, a suburb of Paris, France, is the 9th densest place in the world for population, yet it also appears very human-scaled with no large towers. (so says this Twitter thread). It's not even 2-square kilometers (less than half the size of the University of Waterloo campus), and has a population of 49,700 people. I would like to see a proposal for more density that does not include incredibly tall towers that will only beget more tall towers while ignoring what makes a community great at the street level.
I'm never going to say that we shouldn't have tall towers but I do think that having lots of 4-6 storey buildings is perhaps actually more effective in getting lots of density.