Soooo, how is high-density looking to everyone now?

[Anonymous]

From the New York Times:

“Density is really an enemy in a situation like this,” said Dr. Steven Goodman, an epidemiologist at Stanford University. “With large population centers, where people are interacting with more people all the time, that’s where it’s going to spread the fastest.”

The challenge facing New York and other tightly cramped cities around the United States can be seen by comparing the country’s largest city to its second biggest, Los Angeles.

As of Monday, there were more than 13,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in New York and about 500 in Los Angeles. New York reported 125 deaths; Los Angeles reported seven.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-crowds-density.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All those people singing and chatting outside the balcony seem to be having a better time than empty nesters alone in their SFH.

We have empry nesters on our low density DC single and duplex home block happily chatting (at a safe distance) with the other empty nesters, singles and families. We also have each other contact info and check on each other. It's called a "neighborhood "

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Population density and walkability is better for the planet.

Don’t let this current acute crisis let you forget about the slow death of climate change.

Oh shut up!

[Anonymous]

Loving the big yard and woods right now... would hate to live closer in

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Population density and walkability is better for the planet.

Don’t let this current acute crisis let you forget about the slow death of climate change.

Oh shut up!

Good one!

[Anonymous]

Almost as crazy as open borders

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a crappy way to grind your axe, OP.

I'm sorry coronavirus has made increasing density politically untouchable for the foreseeable future.

(Not sorry).

We need to amend the DC comprehensive plan and upzone all of Ward 3 to create tall and dense mixed-use upscale housing to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of people who DC planners and developers want to attract to the District.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in DC, and I'm really liking it. It's not like NYC where it's hard to find space. I can go for a walk and maintain plenty of distance, but I can also have a porch happy hour where I can chat with all my neighbors while we are all on our own porches. I can be by myself yet not feel lonely.

Don’t you know that SFH neighborhoods are wasteful, selfish and exclusionary?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coronavirus is going to absolutely crush hospitals in NYC.

They need to start building new hospitals in NYC immediately.

Do you have any idea how many years it takes to build a hospital?

Just the permits and EIS surveys take years, plus residents associations fighting it because of the noise, parking, etc.

Blame the lawyers and the environmental loons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks pretty good to me know in Singapore and Taiwan and Hong Kong...

Helps to have a functional government though.

Their low numbers are a function of restrictive foreigner entry and a culture where wearing a mask is not freaking stigmatized...but a second wave is now coming upon them with returnees from Europe...

These countries employ many (including 3rd country nationals who aren't paid much) in service industries like cleaning. Labor in the US is far more expensive. While we have good large-scale sanitation systems, we are super cheap and lackadaisical about every day sanitation. Just look at restaurant/coffee shop bathrooms, bus station bathroom, library bathroom or Union Station bathroom Do you think those are getting wiped down on the reg? And how professionally? And how about that rat problem? But yeah, let's throw in more vertical cruise ships and restaurants.

[Anonymous]

Just found this thread. So fun. I have NEVER really understood the argument for increasing density in the name of saving the planet and global warming. Maybe at the expense of humanity as we are seeing.

Anyway, why does there seem to be an assumption in this thread that Single Family Homes are being occupied by predominately singles and empty nesters? There seem to be LOTS of families with kids of all ages in green leafy DC neighborhoods.

My family has been getting a daily walk or two over the course of this event. I must say that I am very grateful that I am walking through green neighborhoods and not concrete canyons that the "make it denser and build it higher" lobby are always pushing for. Whoever passed the current height laws was a visionary and knew that people needed to breathe.

Good luck to all. Enjoy your wide quiet streets in these times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From the New York Times:

“Density is really an enemy in a situation like this,” said Dr. Steven Goodman, an epidemiologist at Stanford University. “With large population centers, where people are interacting with more people all the time, that’s where it’s going to spread the fastest.”

The challenge facing New York and other tightly cramped cities around the United States can be seen by comparing the country’s largest city to its second biggest, Los Angeles.

As of Monday, there were more than 13,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in New York and about 500 in Los Angeles. New York reported 125 deaths; Los Angeles reported seven.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-crowds-density.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

You know who's really going to be in trouble?

Old people in rural areas where the hospitals have closed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From the New York Times:

“Density is really an enemy in a situation like this,” said Dr. Steven Goodman, an epidemiologist at Stanford University. “With large population centers, where people are interacting with more people all the time, that’s where it’s going to spread the fastest.”

The challenge facing New York and other tightly cramped cities around the United States can be seen by comparing the country’s largest city to its second biggest, Los Angeles.

As of Monday, there were more than 13,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in New York and about 500 in Los Angeles. New York reported 125 deaths; Los Angeles reported seven.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-crowds-density.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

Hard to practice social distancing when no one has any space to begin with.

[Anonymous]

Anybody notice how all of the parking complaints seem to have disappeared without the daily influx of MD cars parking in walkable neighborhoods...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the New York Times:

“Density is really an enemy in a situation like this,” said Dr. Steven Goodman, an epidemiologist at Stanford University. “With large population centers, where people are interacting with more people all the time, that’s where it’s going to spread the fastest.”

The challenge facing New York and other tightly cramped cities around the United States can be seen by comparing the country’s largest city to its second biggest, Los Angeles.

As of Monday, there were more than 13,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in New York and about 500 in Los Angeles. New York reported 125 deaths; Los Angeles reported seven.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-crowds-density.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

You know who's really going to be in trouble?

Old people in rural areas where the hospitals have closed.

They are not going to get it, sorry. Now the person in Manhattan in a bed in the javits center he’ll wish he lived in West Virginia at that moment