[flexie]

This is true. But the easiest way to fix the inadequate transportation is to build more densely. Build more highrises. A 30 floor highrise with 8 apartments per floor can easily house 500 people but only takes up the land that 4 single family houses with less than 15 persons would occupy.

But the effect is multiplied if this highrise is in an city with many highrises. Now, instead of commuting 30 miles to pass another 1,500 single homes to reach work, the inhabitants of our highrise may only have to walk 1 mile to pass the homes of a similar amount of people and reach work.

[codedokode]

it is very uncomfortable to stand near a 30-floor building looking up. Also, people in the building will have troubles with parking all of their cars. By the way this [1] is what those buldings look like.

[1] https://varlamov.me/2016/china_ray/09.jpg

[closeparen]

Well we should certainly not make them with concrete faces. This isn’t Soviet Russia, so there’s not much danger in that.

Take a look down any street in the Financial District. What we want is that, just more of it over a larger surface area.

[mvid]

It’s not optimizing for “comfort in looking up”. Also, cars are only a necessity when you can’t walk everywhere. San Francisco is already a city where the majority don’t own a car. Making it more dense won’t undo that.