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Originally Posted by NYer34
You're confusing two very different things:
1. The underlying architecture, built environment and street presence of a neighborhood, and
2. The quality of tenants and retail in a neighborhood
Your thinking above is the exact same thinking that drove the innumerable examples of "urban renewal" in the '50s and '60s ... and that left us with all sorts of atrocities in the built environment for the sake of slightly nicer tenants (for a few years - until the crappy modernist replacements lost their sheen and wound up more decrepit, much more quickly, than the tenements they replaced).
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I read Crawford's comment and face-palmed. Complete lack of reading comprehension, or is it a lack of critical thinking? Not sure, but you are right on about that kind of "thinking" (or lack there of) is what is killing the beauty in building's street presence, for the sake of high-end tenants/owners. It's not even an argument against gentrification, but simply a matter of respecting the beauty and energy that well-made, good-intention, designs bring to the neighborhood.