Before WWI, Warsaw was one of the densest cities in Europe with 24000 people per km². It was mostly composed of blocks like this one, with many apartments only facing the 9 by 9 metre courtyard, not the street.
Can’t even walk outside of your condo, despite it being on the border of the river Meuse. (Liège, Belgium)
in Cairo city planners passed the level of adding more lanes, now they add more bridges. to the resident’s surprise, building height limit codes don’t apply to bridges