On: Seattle’s micro-housing boom offers an affordable alternative

[kiba]

More like real estate. The amount of land is fixed, after all. And some are more valuable than others.

Even the materials used to build houses had gotten cheaper, presumably.

Skyscrappers and high density housing can increase supply but only if regulations and market conditions allow it.

[Zigurd → kiba]

Here is a list of cities by population density. They're not the ones you would expect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_population_d...

It is possible to have lo-rise, high-density. As for "regulations and market conditions?" Everyplace has those.

[umanwizard → Zigurd]

That list doesn't tell us much, because what counts as the official city limits is completely arbitrary.

There are some parts of London for example that are very suburban.

[droidist2 → umanwizard]

Exactly. San Francisco is just twice the size of Manhattan and Houston is about 200 times as big of an area.