Closer And Further Away

Do lower densities make places feel crowded?

One question I come back to from time to time at this newsletter is what we mean when we say a place feels “crowded.” I think to a great extent what we’re really saying is “there’s a lot of car traffic here.” But because we don’t typically think about cars and car-centric mobility, per se, we make the mental jump that cars are people, and that if a plac…