| > The more you build the more people will come. Sure, but demand is not infinite. > When can you consider a city to be full? No such thing. > Are you ok with raising a family in a 400 sq. feet condo like people do in Asia? Because if you increase density that's going to be a new standard for American cities. I'd rather that be an option than only having slightly larger apartments that are unaffordable, like the bay area currently does. I think Vienna is a better model, though. Dense and highly livable. I live in Munich right now, which is similar. It's a great place for families. > The problem is the high concentration of IT businesses in a small region of space. And the solution is to spread it to other cities across US. Wrong. Ecosystem effects are a natural phenomenon. There's a reason you tend to get clusters for industries: they're more effective that way. Forcibly spreading out the economic success also means reducing the economic success in total. A much better option is just letting people come. The bay area isn't dense at all right now anyway. |