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What People Get Wrong About Dense Urban Living

Oh The Urbanity! · 76K views · 2022-06-14 · 7:10

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Overview

Oh The Urbanity! argues that most city dwellers live in dense residential neighbourhoods outside downtown, which can be calm and peaceful. It draws on older, denser parts of Toronto and Montreal.

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HN users repeatedly post it to rebut the idea that urban living means Manhattan or Hong Kong apartment blocks.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 7 months · HN mentions 2022–2024

Topics

Transit, cities & urban planning
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What people said

throw0101b · 2024-04 · Recommendation

> Everyone is different, but man... I'm the guy that likes to fire up the bbq and chat with neighbors in the backyard while the kids are who knows where (but safe) in the sprawl. I do this in "the city" right now (I BBQed some lamb on Sunday; my neighbour got a new motorcycle (Scrambler 1200XE) and I chatted with him about it). The Oh the Urbanity channel has a video on the (mistaken) idea that "urban living" = Manhattan / Hong Kong apartment blocks, which is certainly not the case: * [VIDEO] Here are some examples houses in an urban area with front yards, back yards, and garages (attached to lanes): * [LINK] * [LINK] A little less square footage: * [LINK] * [LINK] Plenty of that was build pre-WW2 in ways that didn't depend on cars: * [LINK] * [LINK] Suburban design is the worst of both worlds: lacking the density of the urban so infrastructure is inefficient and so is transportation, and basically bulldozing what makes more rural living nice (closeness to nature).

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throw0101d · 2024-01 · Recommendation

> Why are we still trying to cram into small spaces? Define "small". Here are some examples houses in an urban area with front yards, back yards, and garages (attached to lanes): * [LINK] * [LINK] A little less square footage: * [LINK] * [LINK] The Oh the Urbanity channel has a video on the (mistaken) idea that "urban living" = Manhattan / Hong Kong apartment blocks, which is certainly not the case: * [VIDEO] Plenty of that was build pre-WW2 in ways that didn't depend on cars: * [LINK] * [LINK] Suburban design is the worst of both worlds: lacking the density of the urban so infrastructure is inefficient and so is transportation, and basically bulldozing what makes more rural living nice (closeness to nature).

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throw0101a · 2023-07 · Recommendation

> Public. Transit. Non-car centric development. The Oh the Urbanity channel has a video on the (misguided) idea that "urban living" = Manhattan / Hong Kong apartment blocks : * [VIDEO] Want a front yard, back yard, and garage (attached to a laneway)? Plenty of that was built pre-WW2: * [LINK] * [LINK] Examples (Streetview): * [LINK] * [LINK] * [LINK] See also: * [LINK] Fifteen minutes pedalling in one direction is downtown, fifteen minutes in the other is farm land.

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