I grew up in a city of mostly rowhomes and I love them. Plan on buying one one day.
You still get walk-ability, sense of community and good population density (not as good as a high-rise but still good), but also more privacy, and the space is more conducive to raising a family than an apartment. Also they’re cute as fuck and people can paint them different colors and have cool little gardens on their porches and stuff.
If that’s the case then sure. I’ve only lived in paper thin wall apartments.
The issue isn’t with density itself, it’s with cost-cutting and labor-cutting methods of building that give you something cheap really quickly.
Single-unit houses allow you to temporarily ignore the flaws, as long as you have plenty of land per household, unlimited fossil fuels, and unlimited raw materials for renovation. And we really don’t have any of those.
Which should honestly only be built in times of hardship, but that’s capitalism for you
Even apartments can be build better. Concrete subfloor units with proper baffling (air gap between units, also makes utility work easier) means I’ve only heard neighbors when they were doing things like using a drill.