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Originally Posted by ChargerCarl
By city center I mean something equivalent to the 23 wards of Tokyo.
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London's land area is much bigger than this though. It's over 600 square miles compared to about 240 square miles for the old city of Tokyo.
One could increase London's population by 50% or more without building skyscrapers or over green space, just by emphasizing midrise apartments over single-family.
You're right that their will be NIMBY resistance to this anyway (even residents of the Rotherhithe peninsula are protesting plans to redevelop the area around Surrey Quays, which is an absolute postwar abomination), but it's an objectively better plan.