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converting office buildings do not preclude designing humane urban areas
by mkoubaa 3y ago
converting office buildings do not preclude designing humane urban areas
- 01100011 3y agoDid you interpret my comment as suggesting that it does?
- cowsandmilk 3y agoWell, converted office buildings was in the same clause as substandard housing…
- mkoubaa 3y agoI did. Was that a misunderstanding on my part ?
- 01100011 3y agoI'm trying to say that I hope we do not stop putting significant effort towards housing once we have fulfilled whatever quota we're trying to achieve. If we add units with converted office buildings, ADUs and other quick fixes, we may lose the drive to create dense, humane, pleasurable environments which we will need to coax folks back to efficient living in the urban areas(which must happen absent a serious commitment to carbon-neutral energy).
- mcmoor 3y agoGiven some other comments that say that "it's better than eternal slavery", I'd hope that it truly doesn't end in another brutalism hell.
- gnulinux 3y agoJust like many other big cities in the US, downtown Boston definitely has brutalist areas, probably due to being built back when brutalism was a common style -- for example, Boston city hall is in brutalist style [1]. However, the most common architectural style in Boston is red-brick. Even some modern high-risers are built to look in this style. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_City_Hall#/media/File:Boston_City_Hall_exterior_02.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_City_Hall#/media/File:B...