Images of Density
July 27th, 2005
This site by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is called Visualizing Density, and has many insightful things to say about the density of population and housing across the US and elsewhere. But most of all, the images they provide are absolutely stunning – remisiscent of Godfrey Reggio’s fabulous Qatsi trilogy. From their site:
Sprawl is bad. Density is good. Americans need to stop spreading out and live closer together. Well… that’s the theory, anyway. But, as anyone who has tried to build compact development recently will tell you, if there’s one thing Americans hate more than sprawl, it’s density.Link
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July 28th, 2005 at 5:28 pm
Perhaps it can be argued that efficient use of space, which sprawl is not, should occur more frequently, but to say that America needs to be denser, I believe, misses the point.
Smart and efficient use of space would additionally imply finding a way to get inhabitants into closer quarters while allowing them to feel like the space they are in is not, in fact, dense.
The pictures are stunning, though, as they do anything but that.
August 21st, 2006 at 11:45 pm
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