Everyone wants to keep the character of their neighborhood.
Forget that ! When you go to a dense city like Barcelona where every block is nearly 4 story high rise apartments, its wonderful.
Change is beautiful, people enhance neighborhoods
Forget that ! When you go to a dense city like Barcelona where every block is nearly 4 story high rise apartments, its wonderful.
Change is beautiful, people enhance neighborhoods
I chose a random small city in northern Catalonia called Vielha and viewed it on Goggle Maps, there they are. They look different to Eixanple apartment buildings, but they are there in the centre. Population less than 6k.
Chose another, Gironella, a bit further south; population around 4k. One less floor on the multi family apartment buildings in the old centre, and a much higher ratio of SFDs to MFDs in the settlement as a whole, but still there.
How many should I sample to convince you?
That's a pretty remarkable belief. Many of us happy suburbanites have lived in large dense cities in our younger days. We are not ignorant of the joys of city living, we've just changed priorities.
The extreme example is of course Venice.