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There's a renewed -really, never seen before urgency at this moment- Id would imagine this has to slow development and scale back projects at the very least, if not have some scrapped in the very near future.
Unlike the past 30 years, you've got the last 30 years of climate change already under the belt It gets more pressing more quickly each year. I do not expect Miami or anywhere really to grow as fast as it once did anyway...
MSAs with population over 100k ppsm:
New York: 1,678,781
San Francisco: 29,472
Miami: 7,863
Chicago: 6,505
Boston: 5,747
Honolulu: 4,148
Seattle: 3,506
Los Angeles: 2,124
If only Houston's 495K was in a more urban walkable environment. It wouldn't be looked at as a sprawled wasteland as people see it as now. At least not as much.
Atlanta being that low doesn't surprise me. Same with Charlotte. Built up core but with the winding hilly roads and tall trees of the Piedmont areas, you're not going to get high density especially outside of the actual city limits.
Austin hits rock bottom in density once you leave the core.
If only Houston's 495K was in a more urban walkable environment. It wouldn't be looked at as a sprawled wasteland as people see it as now. At least not as much.
Atlanta being that low doesn't surprise me. Same with Charlotte. Built up core but with the winding hilly roads and tall trees of the Piedmont areas, you're not going to get high density especially outside of the actual city limits.
Austin hits rock bottom in density once you leave the core.
I mean, it's pretty much what we've been saying for the past 10 years now. Atlanta's urban core is denser than Houston's, but falls off big time outside of the core neighborhoods. Houston(and Dallas) maintain higher densities away from the urban core and throughout the metro area(though it doesn't really matter since it's suburban in nature anyways).
If only Houston's 495K was in a more urban walkable environment. It wouldn't be looked at as a sprawled wasteland as people see it as now. At least not as much.
Atlanta being that low doesn't surprise me. Same with Charlotte. Built up core but with the winding hilly roads and tall trees of the Piedmont areas, you're not going to get high density especially outside of the actual city limits.
Austin hits rock bottom in density once you leave the core.
10,000 ppsm is still pretty sprawlish anyway. It is still the density achieved via single family homes.
The real 'walkable' densities start at around 15-20,000 ppsm. Low-rise apartment buildings start at around 22-25,000 ppsm. This is around the average density of London. Brooklyn/Tokyo densities are about 35,000-60,000 ppsm.
The real high density like you see in Manhattan starts at around 70,000+ ppsm.
The real "big boy" density starts at around the 40,000 ppsm mark, where you rarely see anything resembling SFHs or detached midrises on pedestals sitting on huge lots.
10,000 ppsm is still pretty sprawlish anyway. It is still the density achieved via single family homes.
The real 'walkable' densities start at around 15-20,000 ppsm. Low-rise apartment buildings start at around 22-25,000 ppsm.
10k ppsm with single families homes means those SFH have to be tightly packed together. You'd probably have urban, walkable corridors and streetcar suburbs.
If only Houston's 495K was in a more urban walkable environment. It wouldn't be looked at as a sprawled wasteland as people see it as now. At least not as much.
Atlanta being that low doesn't surprise me. Same with Charlotte. Built up core but with the winding hilly roads and tall trees of the Piedmont areas, you're not going to get high density especially outside of the actual city limits.
Austin hits rock bottom in density once you leave the core.
Houston seems to have density without benefit or purpose.
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