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Originally Posted by 599GTO
You're advocating turning New York into Sprawlsville, USA. There is a very good reason New York is so special and unique in the United States. 95% of U.S. cities mirror your preferred pattern of development, so you have have a very large selection of cities to chose from. Move there?
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Urban sprawl like a Tokyo is fine. The density is what matters, not sprawl itself. If NYC could somehow keep the density up high with a large area of low to mid rise dense urban sprawl, the city would not necessarily suffer in terms of urbanity Unfortunately, Americans prefer to live in low-density suburbs and NY's density drops off rapidly outside the core. The problem is that most US cities don't have the population to sustain both density and sprawl that leads to a poor urban experience. Yes?
In fact, I would prefer a larger area of mid-rise/high rise sprawl like a Tokyo or Seoul over a small concentrated area of hyper high rise density like Manhattan. It gives a more varied city and a larger area of usable city. Maybe there would be less scrapers, but there would be more land and urban neighborhoods to explore. If NY had kept it's pre 1920's appearance in Manhattan, I would prefer this to the current situation of focusing everything on Manhattan and building tall buildings. We all know that that version of Manhattan was the most beautiful and grand. The current NY isn't as pretty at all.
IF LA had Tokyo like density, it would be a city that would be very interesting to me. Replace all those low rise buildings with 10 story apartments and more poles of high rise, and you'd have a city that would give NY a run for it's money in America. It has a beach too.