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Originally Posted by JDRCRASH
I think you and I appear to be on the same page, LABeauty. I don't expect this to DIRECTLY cause a high-rise boom, but I do think that it will encourage people to live closer to work rather than biking there.
Echo, that post didn't make any sense. You say that "oil scarcity and rising costs aren't giong to help DTLA", but then at the end of the paragraph you say that "it will help DTLA in the long term".
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1000% of sense on the long term aspects because the cost of living of commuting long distances will bankrupt people and then force them to then move closer to where the activities/jobs and modes to which you are not required a car to do any and everything which in turn helps Downtown because we're equipped to do those very things.
I would agree with him/her on the short term that this effects Downtown High-rise construction because it takes a lot of fuel to power the concrete mixers and move the cranes and the material around to build the structures. This is something I pointed out a while back on another thread. In addition we will need to go back to a local sustainable method of building design and materials and methods of construction while still gaining the density and affordability we need.
However with China's major building boom their fuel costs will help slow down their construction and help improve the cost of our construction since the price of the material needed for all of these will go down for us since China won't have a monopoly on steel and concrete. It's a chain reaction how one thing leads to and effects other things.
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