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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
And more preferable for raising kids, IMO.
Central Barcelona is cool as fuck, but no way in hell would I want to be raising my family in the thick of that kinda density.
I'll gladly keep my neighborhood chicago middle urbanism, thank you very much.
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I actually love the sort of Anglo urbanism you have in Chicago, but as someone parenting in a European block neighborhood (it's not Barcelona, but it's similar)... it has some good things to it.
The photo below isn't my area, but it's a similar part of inner Stockholm. The thing at that level of density is that everything is VERY close. The school, the grocery store, the subway station... it's all easily within a 10 minute walk, usually 5. Your whole daily life world is easily inside the photo.
Those courtyard spaces inside the buildings are great for small kids, too, and often have swings or sandboxes or similar.
The downside is that the price per square foot is usually very high, favouring smaller apartments.
I'm not married to this way of living, but it's not child-unfriendly. We don't really have these blockhouses in the US, Canada or the UK, so they're a little foreign, but they have some nice advantages.
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