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Furthermore, the traffic associated with high-density houses places a strain on the transit system and other public infrastructure and services that the city is usually unequipped to handle.

So even if you did move to Boulder, you'd probably oppose the construction of more high-density housing, right?

There are smart ways to do high-density housing while preserving the character of cities like Boulder.

Discouraging high-density housing gives you higher prices AND a much less diverse city.

I'm not questioning your decision, but it's worth being realistic about what high-density construction could achieve.

Obviously, but no amount of high-density construction in Boulder will make it cheaper than equivalent accommodations in Bend (unless Bend gets a lot more expensive).

As an aside: generally stuff published on Stanford's website is written by top professionals in various fields, which makes it a high-density source of good information.

Upon entering a high-density zone, the car would automatically be put into a state with limits on speed, acceleration, horse power and adherence to traffic controls.

Mass transportation and high-density settlements are much more energy-efficient, and energy is one of the biggest problems we're facing as a civilization right now.

There are lots of places east of downtown/CU that you could build clusters of high-density, 4-5 story, mixed-use residential that wouldn't obstruct mountain views for the most powerful (i.e.

Anyway, there would be more incentive to build high-density housing if more people wanted to buy it instead of writing off the housing market as insane and going elsewhere (be it the eastern suburbs or somewhere completely different as you did).

(Gradual growth is healthy and necessary, but excess growth harms everyone.) If discouraging high-density housing means higher housing prices, but buys me less congestion and a higher quality of life, then that seems like a good tradeoff to me as a resident.

And there don't seem to be any insurmountable problems (the biggest problems are "vision" being power and CPU intensive, but a car is a very high-density power source).

> push some jobs elsewhere The theory goes that these high-density population centres have higher productivity, for a couple of reasons: - "Truer" competition -- distance is an artificial barrier that reduces employees' access to jobs and reduces employers' access to job candidates.

> no supersonic public aircraft any more There is no supersonic "public" aircraft because people have decided it wasn't worth the cost and have gravitated towards cheap high-density flying instead, it's not like we're flying any less than in the 60s or less far (a 777LR can go halfway around the globe without stopping) so the comparison to space travel is bonkers.