You see one apartment building. A property developer sees room for 100 apartment buildings.

What nature? I have to drive 2 hours to see nature. Bring on the houses.

the simplest solution is to stop having so many babies. population reduction is critical to quality of life.

I just moved from an apartment to a house.

If the apartment had the same floor space and the city actually accommodated my hobbies (I need a large garage to work on cars and finish fixing a boat) then I would’ve gladly stayed.

However. Apartments above 60m² are rare and expensive, and all garages/industrial sites are unfavorable because you can put another bloc or supermarket in there. The cities became living hubs for corporate workers whose entire lives can be crammed into a 40 meter apartment and their only entertainment is a depression rectangle or a gaming console.

When we lived in an apartment someone set off the fire alarm several times a week, sometimes at 3am which is a shitty way and time to awaken. Never want to live in one again

Can we get a version with all treehouses?

Now, do the houses in the same density. I’m talking, wall-to-wall, stacked on top of one another in a brick filled with shingles, confusion, and misery, thanks to the lack of any connecting hallways, stairwells, or elevators. /j

Unironically houses. If you go for the apartment, The remaining land will still be filled up, just with apartments instead of houses, and you’ll have to deal with 50x more people then you would have with house model.

One of the main benefits of using houses instead of apartments is avoiding population density.

Left, 100%. I don’t share walls with randos.

in both scenarios developers eventually buy up the entire island and fill it with either

The picture on the left could be even worse. There are areas where people move in and tear all the greenery out of the garden and then either cover everything with paving stones or gravel. Everything around the house! Then there’s also an ugly metal fence or plastic elements in the garden, sometimes you can see fake plants.

Some humans are so stupid…

If the apartments are no shoe boxes and have lavishly big (garden) balconies I’m all in. The space should be around 100-120 qm each with flexible drywall placement for individual footprints.

I love living in a walkable city but I envy a friend of mine a little bit, who exits his apartment into a market center with cafes, shops, supermarkets, barber, doctors etc.

A lot of people in this thread are mistaking the map for the territory. Like yes, obviously neither the development on the right, or the left would actually happen in real life, because why are these people even on the island? What do they eat? What do they drink? Where do they work? The sole statement of the graphic is that dense developments have a reduced impact on nature compared to sparse developments. Discussing the logistics would exceed what can be conveyed by such a format.

I’ve lived in an apartment and I just can’t do it. I hated every day in it.

Put a few more towers there for double or triple the housing and we’re in business.