Well, they’re building three in one go in my urban area. And they’re fucking up my neighborhood. The whole neighborhood is lower rise buildings and prewar apartment buildings, so they have character. And then they knocked down a grocery store to put up these three ungodly ass warts.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 41 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Good neighborhoods should have a mix of older and newer buildings.

From Jane Jacobs' The Death and Life of Great American Cities

[–] SpeakingColors@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for sharing that excerpt! Definitely a concept I had not thought about, makes perfect sense, and is seen demonstrated in the gentrification process.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, she definitely has some thought-provoking explanations on how cities work.

I would say gentrifying 1 building is ok, and is something you can do every 5 years or so to help boost the economy and modernize the building stock. But it becomes a problem when an entire block or an entire neighborhood becomes gentrified all at once. It'll lead to a slum in the long run.

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