Date: January 13th, 2009

Loophole or gotcha? Part 1: just pay for it

13 January, 2009 (11:04) | Cities, Historic, Local issues, Regulation, Zoning and land use | No comments

“‘Course I’m respectable!  I’m old.  Politicians, ugly buildings and whores, all get respectable if they last long enough.”
– Millionaire Noah Cross, Chinatown
 

 
Urbanists like me love old buildings in cities, because they create visual and usage texture and diversity, part of the complexity that makes cities magnets for entrepreneurs and wealth-generating engines.
 
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