Some cities create housing areas by providing taller buildings. Others create housing by building houses on a wider area of land. What solution is better?

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do modern cities look like? There is no simple and single answer to
this
question. That highly depends on the geographical location, natural features in that
area
, history and traditions of the region, et cetera. Both glass skyscrapers squeezed into narrow streets and two-storey private houses distributed on a huge
area
of land have their merits and demerits. In
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I am going to elaborate more on the topic. Most of the buildings in the majority of
european
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cities are demolished every other half a century in
favor
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of building
a
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taller, more comfortable and smart places to live and work. At the same
time
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this
advantages
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comes
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with a cost of ruined city architecture when a
built in
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19th century 5-storey museum with
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a beautiful
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beautiful
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decorated facade stands
next
to a
hundreds
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meters higher glass-and-steel creature of a modern architect. An apple does not fall far from a tree,
means
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which means
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suburban
areas
have pretty much the same look as downtown. High-rise multi-storey multi-
enterance
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entrance
buildings just randomly fill an available
area
, not leaving space for
such
public spaces as parks and recreation
areas
. And there is an opposite approach which is mostly utilized by North American and Australian cities - regions where there
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in
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no problem with free space for building. Despite the fact that downtowns are
also
being rebuilt like in Europe,
this
part of the city is commonly accepted as a business
area
where people work. While the living
areas
look like vast valleys with private houses spread to the right and left of the lanes, going
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straight
straigh
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straight
from the South to the North and from the East to the West. These
areas
,
offenly
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often
called communities, are designed and
build
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for people to enjoy their accommodations, with plenty of green
areas
and highly available parking lots wherever possible. An attentive reader might have already caught that I tend to the latter approach of urbanistic architecture, where the city is divided into 2 worlds - a world to do business and a world to live, not exist.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • urban density
  • sustainability
  • public transportation
  • green spaces
  • community connections
  • overcrowding
  • economic implications
  • infrastructure impact
  • maintenance costs
  • carbon footprint
  • compact city
  • habitat destruction
  • greenhouse gas emissions
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