Density helps cities such as Seattle advance and compete

When contemplating the correlation between density and socioeconomic success, Seattle offers a striking example.

Among the world’s “innovation districts” — defined by the Brookings Institution as geographic areas where leading-edge anchor institutions and companies cluster and connect with startups, (and) business incubators …. also physically compact, transit-accessible, and offer mixed-use housing, office, and retail” — South Lake Union in Seattle is considered one of the best.

The location, which flows into Belltown, is home to Amazon’s headquarters as well as numerous other tech companies, startups, high-end branches of Silicon Valley firms such as Google parent Alphabet and Facebook, plus the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Allen Institut