Urban Density in a Time of Plague
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:32 am
https://www.startribune.com/katherine-k ... 569364112/
Op-ed on new urbanists and their goal to densify our cities. With recent lessons learned-Re-pandemics, this might not be such a good idea.
>>>"The holy grail for the Met Council’s urban planners, and their allies at the Minneapolis City Council, is “densification.” They seek to engineer a world in which we increasingly abandon our single-family homes for stack-and-pack, multifamily apartments, and our private automobiles for jam packed mass transit."<<<
Op-ed on new urbanists and their goal to densify our cities. With recent lessons learned-Re-pandemics, this might not be such a good idea.
>>>"The holy grail for the Met Council’s urban planners, and their allies at the Minneapolis City Council, is “densification.” They seek to engineer a world in which we increasingly abandon our single-family homes for stack-and-pack, multifamily apartments, and our private automobiles for jam packed mass transit."<<<