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Originally Posted by Illithid Dude
I'm going to change the subject here for a bit. Is anyone else bothered by the fact that none of the high rises downtown are close together? They are all far apart. I hate this. I go to any other city and there are lovely canyon effects down every street. For some reason, out of all the cities, Los Angeles doesn't have this. It bugs me more then anything else does downtown.
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Of course this all has to do with the zoning history of downtown LA. Back in the 1960s and 1970s, plazas were encouraged specifically because city planners did NOT want canyons or dark streets most of the time; they wanted the areas around the skyscrapers to have a lot of sunlight for at least part or most of the day.
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Originally Posted by DistrictDirt
Notice that for that first rendering they chose the time of day that maximizes the sunlight into the shopping center. In other words, it will never be bright down there as it is in the moment depicted in the rendering.
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Not only the time of day, but time of year. In the winter, when the sun arcs in the southerly portion of the sky, the bottom levels of this shopping center never get any direct sunlight.
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