As urban living becomes ever-more crowded and compact, cities are increasingly seen as a fundamental driver of progress and prosperity.
While density is doubtless important, cities must also be able to balance the crude packing-in of people with the ability of residents and businesses to interact. The skyscraper districts of Asia’s mega-cities are phenomenally dense, but they can function as vertical sprawl, inhibiting the very kinds of interactivity that density is supposed to promote.
