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Originally Posted by kool maudit
Having joined this forum in the very late 1990s, it is dispiriting to see that the generational shift towards urbanism that began with our extolling the virtues of celebrated prewar districts in the world's great cities has brought us here.
These joyless, cynical buildings erected into the paradoxical, quasi-permanent "housing crisis" that emerges from our sterility/immigration dialectic.
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We could certainly preserve our pre-war heritage while still densifying our cities, but it seems like more housing anywhere has taken over the collective thought process, as if we don't have an abundance of parking lots and empty fields to re-develop.
I understand that some cities are actually running out of space (maybe the big three, but certainly not the rest), but there are ways to preserve heritage none the less. And new suburbs should be inspired by the denser streetcar suburbs of the past, which could also take some pressure off older areas.
Unpopular opinion no doubt.
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