[pyrale]

...Or just stop building high rises. It's always fascinating from an european PoV to see that in e.g. NY you have 60 floor housing buildings, and then close to them you have a sea of personal homes, each with a garden, large roads and no public transportation.

On the other hand, Paris is mostly 4-8 floor buildings and manages to have a better population density than the aggregate NY agglomeration.

I would assume that properly spaced 6-floor appartment blocks with two stairwells and a couple parks in the neighbourhood to evacuate to would reduce fire casualties dramatically, while also offering enough density for efficient transportation networks.