alt Hacker NewsWhere do you draw a line? 100 years? 200? 500? Especially if buildings age nicely and they’re still considered good-looking.
I’m in Europe and here if people suggested to tear down some art noveau buildings because they’re just 100-150 years old… I’d be absolutely furious. Don’t get me started on buildings from 200 or 300 years ago.
With US having much less old buildings, I totally get why people want to preserve such buildings.
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microgpt • yesterday at 2:27 PM
Ultimately, variety is key. Let's keep a sample of them to remember the past, and build everywhere else? A city with a mix of building types is much more interesting than a monoculture.
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I'm pretty sure paris looked looked nothing like now 100 years ago. Some other buildings had to come down to put up that art noveau building. I'm pretty sure someone would have been complaining about how that changes the character of the city they grew up in.
To directly answer your question about where to draw the line a simple heuristic is to leave public buildings alone. This can even include a privately owned shop that is accessible to the public. They are part of the cities culture. Private homes in the other hand shouldn't be protected.