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Pfft, like I have to win arguments. The world just wins them for me. :)
It's not only London and Paris, but South Manhattan, too. Mixed-use town centres, surprise, surprise, don't have the same problem.
The biggest advantage that cities have is the flexibility that arises from greater concentration and potential for specialisation. They go through boom cycles (e.g., at the moment, residential is hugely overvalued) but adjust again when the balance normalises.
I did ride through Holloway yesterday, so yes, that was probably me. About half an hour before your post?
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Just remembered this, too:
New York City is sinking in part due to the extraordinary weight of its vertiginous buildings, worsening the flooding threat posed to the metropolis from the rising seas, new research has found.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/19/new-york-city-sinking-skyscrapers-climate-crisis
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On a similar topic, the Crooked House stuff is interesting--a building that has previously suffered from severe subsidence obviously can't be rebuilt 'brick for brick', as it would instead have to be rebuilt in such a way that subsidence would no longer be an issue. This would undoubtedly mean a proper examination of the ground it's supposed to be rebuilt on, and obviously differently-constructed foundations. (Like everybody else, I obviously also don't believe that any of what has happened to it recently has been 'accidental', and there certainly has to be a reckoning.)
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A rather idiotic planning application in Folkestone, which I hope will be refused.
This from Miami, where ironically Al Capone's mansion will be torn down in a case that reeks of corruption:
In its analysis of the law, Florida Politics notes that numerous iconic buildings and neighborhoods in and around Miami are now without protection, including the Art Deco design district, the Versace mansion on South Beach and the Delano hotel.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/27/al-capone-miami-mansion-demolition-ron-desantis
This is not the planning legislation you want.
New York:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/21/new-york-jail-chinatown-rikers-island
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Rishi Sunak’s report finds low-traffic neighbourhoods work and are popular
Downing Street initially buried study, which Tories had hoped would strengthen arguments against traffic-reducing measures -
I was happier before I knew this existed ...
What an absolute atrocity.
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China has dozens of them on the mainland. The last one I heard about is in Malaysia.
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Yes, there are plenty such sites with more conventional architecture—even though the blocks are very similar, they're just standard modernist tower blocks and don't replicate the same silly castle or birdhouse design over and over. The latter was really the novelty for me, not that there are these empty white elephants in lots of places. The thing is that concrete is patient, and once it's there, it's there and can eventually be brought into use, unless there's a catastrophic earthquake beforehand or something. I'm more doubtful with these novelty idiocies, but who knows what'll happen. It may end up being cheaper for the developer to complete them than engage in the huge amount of litigation likely to happen around it.
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may end up being cheaper for the developer to complete them than engage in the huge amount of litigation likely to happen around it.
It will have been set up as independent from the rest of what the developer does though so there's always the option of winding it up and washing their hands of any responsibility.
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Yes, I guess Turkish law will likely allow for that sort of thing to happen, too.
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I remember a discussion @Oliver Schick on a forum ride about mixed use urban areas. Looking at today's vacancy rates for Canary wharf and La defense he won the argument: mixed use is better. I was Schicked many years ago.
@Oliver Schick did you ride through Holloway today? Looked like you.