Quote:
Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper
Steveve's extreme accuracy does create a dilemma. Skyscraper nerds do not like low rise single family neighbourhoods and there's a ton of those in the image. Cabbagetown is sacred however, Baldwin Village and Grange Park's existing low slung densities are often mentioned as expendable.
|
I'm not sure there's much of a dilemma for skyscraper nerds unless they're also a fan of other aspects of urbanism. Otherwise there wouldn't be any reluctance toward redevelopment. But for people in my situation it's a big dilemma. While I'm not a skyscraper fan specifically, I do prefer cities with a high density core and lower (but still fairly high) density inner city. But I'm also a fan of historic preservation since it gives cities character, texture and variety while too much redevelopment threatens that. It just makes me wish that somehow some of the lower density stuff could just be moved a little farther out, since I still want it but I just don't want it displacing denser-inner-city stuff because that stuff ends up not existing. I'm greedy - I want a city with lots of everything. Well, other than car-centric sprawl.
