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Chartbook 394 "A City we can afford": capitalism and democracy in New York
Adam Toozeadamtooze.substack.com
🏙️ urban life
Mike "Bagel" • 1 card
Robert M. Fogelson’s The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850–1930,
Rosecrans Baldwin • Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Residential houses really don’t need much of a setback. https://t.co/XTkV6YgM8y
Delhi, India contains approximately 16 million residents. The neighborhoods of Santosh Park and Uttam Nagar, both pictured here, are home to some of the city’s poorest people and contain its most built-up and densely populated land. Numerous studies have shown a correlation between the wealth of a residential area and its total number of trees and... See more
instagram.comHe subsequently conducted similar studies in New York and Los Angeles, and found the data tracking along almost identical curves. In each case, increasing density from two units per acre to twenty units per acre resulted in about the same savings as the increase from twenty to two hundred.22 To students of urban form, these outcomes are not that
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