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I too would like to see SF go the way of other world class cities like Vancouver and build up. The challenge is the city is insanely proud of it's "small" city
by calbear81 13y ago
I too would like to see SF go the way of other world class cities like Vancouver and build up. The challenge is the city is insanely proud of it's "small" city character and anything that makes it feel more like New York would be out of character. Even when developing in downtown, you run into issues with people protesting the loss of sunlight and the shadows cast by skyscrapers.
- MichaelGG 13y agoThen get innovative with engineering. Build down. Silly that for an area that's supposed to be the centre of high tech, the options are overpriced city, or essentially suburbia.
- malandrew 13y agoAre there any examples of cities that have ever built down? You'd get the housing, but then there would be fighting over the scarcity of windows.
- stefan_kendall 13y agoMore importantly, building down has geometric levels of cost and linear levels of return.
- MichaelGG 13y agoPerhaps I'm too high on sci-fi. But I'd imagine office and retail would work well enough. Put in artificial sunlight, channel some light from the roof area, run large displays to simulate outdoors. If it really works well, then residential might work, too. And fighting over real window space is a far cry better than fighting over any space. As-is, there are even parking garages taking up nice window space in buildings here. The geography looks a bit hilly in SF; it might be cheaper to dig under those hills than just going straight down from a flat area. Maybe I'm just completely naive, but anything seems better than the current solution of doing nothing.