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1. There's tons of unused vertical space in LA. 2. They make more land all the time. Look at a map of Boston in 1800. In fact, look at an old map of almost any
by weeksie 4y ago
1. There's tons of unused vertical space in LA.
2. They make more land all the time. Look at a map of Boston in 1800. In fact, look at an old map of almost any city near a large body of water and compare it to today and you'll find a lot more land being used.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago> They make more land all the time. It is true that many cities have filled in shorelines to create more buildable/usable surface. It is not true that cities do this all the time.
- weeksie 4y agoI suppose that depends playing definition games with "all the time", but we are doing it right now in NYC with the coastal resiliency expansion. Battery Park city was created in the 70s from the excavation done to build the WTC. And right now there's a proposal to expand the southern tip of Manhattan to reach Governor's Island. Suffice to say that "all the time" is correct in this context.
- jjav 4y ago> In fact, look at an old map of almost any city near a large body of water and compare it to today and you'll find a lot more land being used. At a great environmental cost. Thankfully society is a bit more careful about environment destruction than in the days where all garbage was dumped on the shoreline to create landfill and build on it. https://estuarypress.com/hrma-photo-post/filling-the-san-francisco-bay/ https://estuarypress.com/hrma-photo-post/filling-the-san-fra... https://priceonomics.com/what-parts-of-san-francisco-are-built-on-land-fill/ https://priceonomics.com/what-parts-of-san-francisco-are-bui...