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Originally Posted by Crawford
God no, that would be absolutely awful. Design by committee would be the worst possible outcome. NYC already has that in landmarks districts, BTW, and the results are invariably banal.
And the Department of City Planning already has licensed architects, and really no politicians or activists. You set the zoning code, you don't prescribe design.
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Something along the lines of what London has, and that city produces fine buildings. You can't deny London has put up some of the highest quality stuff recently and it has a design review.