On 21 Aug 2006 11:07:22 -0700, "Iceman" wrote:
>without mass transit you can't have higher density.
This statement makes no sense at all. Cities have been very densely
populated for thousands of years. In fact, without high density, mass
transit tends to be prohibitively expensive, but the converse is not
true at all.
The low population density of US urban areas is caused by the relative
abundance of cheap land in the peripheries of cities, combined with
cheap fuel. I can't see how the lack of mass transit could have more
than a small effect on modern population density. The arrival of mass
transit in the early 20th century actually encouraged the development
of bedroom suburbs.
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