The Densest (Urban) Environment in the World
The article discusses the concept of urban density and its perception among people. It argues that the issues associated with density are often related to sanitation, outdoor space, and automobile traffic rather than the density itself. The author suggests that high-rise developments could be improved by integrating appealing environments rather than creating sterile spaces dominated by vehicles.
- ▪People generally enjoy density because it creates a lively atmosphere.
- ▪Problems associated with density include sanitation issues and lack of appealing outdoor spaces.
- ▪High-rise developments could benefit from a combination of appealing interior and exterior environments.
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| Original publisher | Blogspot |
| Canonical URL | https://oldurbanist.blogspot.com/2011/09/densest-urban-environment-in-world.html |
| Publication time | Sun, 24 May 2026 23:49:20 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T00:07:34.943Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T00:07:34.943Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | eShyCIQ6KqbD |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Nathan LewisSeptember 20, 2011 at 11:18 AMOne thing examples like this show is that it is not "density" per se that people don't like. In fact, people tend to like "density," for the same reason that they want to go to the popular nightclub rather than the unpopular one. It's more fun with more people. The problems of "density" are rather things like sanitation (not a problem today but it was in the past), lack of appealing outdoor space (New York and most any other 19th Century Hypertrophic City), and of course the excessively large roadways dominated by automobile traffic.
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