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Originally Posted by jmecklenborg
The lot sizes in Nashville's prewar suburbs are gigantic. There are 900 sq foot houses sitting on 60x200 lots all over the place. That's insanely large compared to just about anywhere in the North. Developers are feasting on these properties all over East Nashville, The Nations, etc. - usually replacing them with at least 2 houses, if not 4. But even that density is still low.
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Not exactly. There's the pre-1963 merger boundaries which are quite dense, especially for any Southern city. That area historically had 175K residents (ca 1960) which now are about double that (340k-400k). You can look at any block within a 1-3 miles from the core and see typically dense preWW2 housing with back alley access and sidewalks. It's beyond 5 miles out (places like Madison) that developed in the first boom after the war that show the effects of the rocky ground and car culture. Those are the areas to which I'm referring that are quickly densifying now. Then there are the surrounding counties that have continued to boom for the past 60 years. They have their own legacy layouts, denser around their core towns/county seats and commercial areas that have sprung up closer to Davidson County.