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Patrick's summary (above) of my argument is correct. Even NYC (by the way) has areas of lower density. I remember visiting NYC shortly after being in Tokyo and thinking that it really wasn't dense at all, although Tokyo is a much lower city overall.

I'm not opposed to highrise buildings, but I'm not in favor of blanketing cities with them, either. In the case of 555 Washington, what's proposed makes sense in the context of the immediate block, but may not in the context of an existing edge to a downtown district that borders a much lower...

The argument I'm making is not against highrise building per se, but against using density as an all-purpose rationale for expanding highrise districts when there may be room for added density closer to the transit-served core. The wall to which one person referred may be arbitrary, but it...