Submitted by BarbaraJames_75 t3_zubv42 in nyc
ssn156357453 t1_j1jphve wrote
Reply to comment by Hrekires in Development v. Historical Preservation? 14 Gay Street in Greenwich Village by BarbaraJames_75
Also: don’t accept this line of thinking. Old buildings should be preserved regardless of historic status. It’s crazy how New Yorkers go and visit Paris and Amsterdam and Venice for vacation and then come back and want to destroy our own old buildings.
Hrekires t1_j1jqxmd wrote
Paris literally can't be built up because it's sitting on hollow ground.
The population of NYC was 122,000 when this building was constructed. It's 8,400,000 today. Need to put people somewhere.
ssn156357453 t1_j1jtjdq wrote
I’m not talking about building up. They could just destroy buildings to more efficiently house people. And forget about particulars, what about literally any major European city.
kapuasuite t1_j1q4knj wrote
They built Paris as we know it today by annihilating huge swaths of the historic city.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann's_renovation_of_Paris
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