• Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
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    3 months ago

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

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

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      3 months ago

      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.

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        3 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.