Can you speak to this: The density will grow, and since individual construction companies don’t have an incentive to care about urban planning, just their own projects, you will get ugly neighborhoods and questionable infrastructure. There’s no guarantee that this will happen, but I’ve seen it happen in my city.
AFAIK, every major city developed like this. If anything, there seems to be evidence that absent development planning you get organic development which leads to massively desirable places to live (NYC, LON, SF)- where almost all the existing constrution was before significant zoning restrictions.
In my experience (Zagreb), you have this same organic development which leads to very crowded buildings with drastically different styles (like massive apartment buildings “boxing in” houses), very little pedestrian space, few parks and green areas… Some pretty messy and inhospitable neighborhoods.
Also some really good ones, so I’m wondering if the main factor is “some person in charge of a building wants to ensure that it fits the neighborhood”.
Can you speak to this:
The density will grow, and since individual construction companies don’t have an incentive to care about urban planning, just their own projects, you will get ugly neighborhoods and questionable infrastructure. There’s no guarantee that this will happen, but I’ve seen it happen in my city.
AFAIK, every major city developed like this. If anything, there seems to be evidence that absent development planning you get organic development which leads to massively desirable places to live (NYC, LON, SF)- where almost all the existing constrution was before significant zoning restrictions.
In my experience (Zagreb), you have this same organic development which leads to very crowded buildings with drastically different styles (like massive apartment buildings “boxing in” houses), very little pedestrian space, few parks and green areas… Some pretty messy and inhospitable neighborhoods.
Also some really good ones, so I’m wondering if the main factor is “some person in charge of a building wants to ensure that it fits the neighborhood”.