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One of the problems in Berlin is that dense residential areas cluster at the edges of the town and office space tends to cluster at the center. So now, if you w
by Xylakant 8y ago
One of the problems in Berlin is that dense residential areas cluster at the edges of the town and office space tends to cluster at the center. So now, if you want to have an office in Berlin and are a company that has more than a handful of employees, people will come from all sides of town, so you'd preferably want office space in the center - which gradually eats up all space that could have been used for housing in the center. Old buildings that could have been refurbished into flats are turned into offices since that's currently more profitable. There's little really high-density living space in central Berlin.
- usrusr 8y agoBerlin has a center? Last time I checked (Sunday), it was still more like an eye of the storm kind of void. But that's perfectly consistent with your finer point, if you could somehow restrict your employees to roughly one quadrant, many things would be much easier. That will never happen of course.
- Xylakant 8y agoWell, Berlin has a geographic center. It doesn’t have a center in any kind of sense that the social life happens around there, you’re right in hat regard. There’s also the mystic “Innerhalb des S-Bahn-Rings”.