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And who can you blame for your higher rent? Berliners?

• allendoerfer 10y ago
  I would blame biology. People want to live in cities, I moved into a city myself. Economically, this is just a fact, you cannot really complain about. You have to build housing to handle the stream of new people and try to avoid empty apartments. In my city, buildings are being build, sure it can always be faster, but there are already whole new districts being build from scratch.
  • tormeh 10y ago
    Berlin doesn't actually need this, in their defense. Sure, skyscrapers are nice, but Berlin has a lot of abandoned buildings they can reach for first. But, goddamn it, building new low-rise buildings... That shit just annoys me.
    • CydeWeys 10y ago
      It pisses me off whenever I'm walking around Manhattan and I see new buildings going up that are only a few floors tall. It's such a poor use of limited space. And yet there are zoning regulations that limit vast swaths of even Manhattan to low heights (often lower than many of the existing structures that were built awhile ago). Check out this PDF of East Village as an example: http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/zoning/zoning-maps/map12c.pdf http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/zoning/zoni... All of those R7* and R8B zones only allow floor area ratios of 3-4, meaning that if a building takes up the entire lot, which is common, it is limited to those numbers of floors.