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nah, density and scale go hand-in-hand, but broken ass-backwards governance prevents adoption of techniques appropriate for the density to provide the services at scale.

it's ridiculous that we are still not building housing and transportation at scale. the automotive industry can churn out complete series of vintages faster than the construction industry sends an email.

housing is still this "my house my castle", which is fine until everyone starts to fight for, conquer and eventually annex the neighborhood.

the same sorry ass techniques are used to build housing as half a century ago, when total population was a billion less, when not 70% of the population lived in cities, and so on.

keeping housing density very high leaves space for other things around housing, eg. hospitals, schools, or ... ugh. parks. makes a lot of mixed development suddenly becomes economically worthwhile.