Density has become something of a dirty word lately. But are dense places the problem?
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Here’s Jane on the misuse of the D word in 1961:
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“Overcrowding at low densities may be even more depressing and destructive than overcrowding at high densities, because at low densities there is less public life as a diversion and escape, and as a means, too, for fighting back politically at injustices and neglect. Everybody hates overcrowding and those who must endure it hate it worst. Almost nobody overcrowds by choice but people often do live in high-density neighborhoods by choice.”
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Maybe the better question is... how can we create more humane, green, economically fertile, open, and equitable places (that are —yes—more densely populated!) in the face of global climate and health crises?
Image sources: @arden_nl, Gdansk, Poland, source unknown; Makoto Matsubayashi; The Blank Slate Studio
