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I have a silver bullet answer: Don't build terrible, dehumanizing, sprawl-encouraging, traffic-encouraging headquarters out in suburbia. This isn't my idea -
by rsync 13y ago
I have a silver bullet answer:
Don't build terrible, dehumanizing, sprawl-encouraging, traffic-encouraging headquarters out in suburbia.
This isn't my idea - it's what every progressive minded thinker that spends even two minutes thinking about urban/traffic/sprawl ideas arrives at.
If google, facebook, et. al, were in the city, the network and wealth effects would be staggering. How many boats would be lifted by that rising tide ?
- textminer 13y agoIf Facebook/Google were in SF, I reckon many of its workers would still live in San Jose, Fremont and Oakland, due to affordability concerns and a lack of density in the city proper.
- batbomb 13y agoYou are assuming that they could move into SF. I'm sure Google could easily fill the Transamerica pyramid. SF isn't amenable to new construction, and Google and most these companies could easily be more decentralized then they are now in MV if they had to take up residence in the city.
- milesskorpen 13y agoIt isn't that simple — SF actively rejects attempts to increase density.
- cromwellian 13y agoSo if Google's entire MTV campus was in SF, you really think housing prices would be better? Move Apple, Facebook, Google to SF and you have gentrification on steroids.