>Focus on historic preservation. Big real estate development projects are not what's bringing the twenty-somethings here. They're the opposite of the new restaurants and cafes; they subtract personality from the city.
>The empirical evidence suggests you cannot be too strict about historic preservation. The tougher cities are about it, the better they seem to do.
Interesting contrast to the common belief here on HN that historic preservation is just unimportant NIMBYism and should be opposed in the name of bringing down housing costs.
>The empirical evidence suggests you cannot be too strict about historic preservation. The tougher cities are about it, the better they seem to do.
Interesting contrast to the common belief here on HN that historic preservation is just unimportant NIMBYism and should be opposed in the name of bringing down housing costs.