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The 15-Minute City by the WEF
- Thread starter frederick
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Exactly
My point is that one major contributing factor was the dense cities...
That looks a lot like Christchurch today. When so many buildings fell down in an earthquake a decade ago, all the vacant sections were turned into paid carparks. As rebuilding is a slow process, there are still rough gravel carparks all over the central city.
Trade network and globalization is cause. Denser cities without good sanitation create greater problem.My point is that one major contributing factor was the dense cities...
This is idiotic. Parking on most attactive places in city (which center is). There must be stupid regulations in place. Are you even allowed to build what before was?
You need bigger storage. So far, experience is that expenditure is just to big.
Not idiotic, entrepreneurial. Of course rebuilding is permitted. But it's not always commercially viable - every business whose building was destroyed either moved to new premises or closed down. Those who moved to new premises now don't need their old building, while those who closed down don't exist. So eventually someone else will use the land. That takes time.
If you think it's idiotic to have carparks in the meantime, feel free to buy one of those sections and build something on it instead.
Remember though that a city centre where all the old buildings have fallen down is no longer the most attractive place in the city. Until it's rebuilt, it's a graffiti-covered ruin - the least attractive place in the city.
I don't get why it wasn't rebuild as soon as possible? Reason would probably be government.
In Croatia was earthquake in December 2021 in Petrinja. City was mostly leveled down. Rebuilding still hasn't started thanks to politics (government promised help to collect political points, but they failed to do anything).
Second reason would be zoning laws. Are you even allowed to build same building as before? If not, here is your answer. If you can't match density before earthquake there is no sense in rebuilding. Because downtown is most desirable only way it can be price competitive is by raising density. And that means building higher.
If density is forbidden and rebuilding slow most people will find new place somewhere else.
Oh yes, the government is getting in the way with rules - but governments mostly frustrate homeowners and small businesses. The rules are written to favour big business, so they don't ultimately stop this sort of thing. Lots of things have been rebuilt already, including some churches. It just all takes time.
The big issue is that no business actually wants to be there, because they'll get more sales in the suburbs, closer to where people live. The only people interested in rebuilding there out of principle are the government and the churches. Businesses build only if there'll be profit in it, and there are no profits where there are few customers.
The big issue is that no business actually wants to be there, because they'll get more sales in the suburbs, closer to where people live. The only people interested in rebuilding there out of principle are the government and the churches. Businesses build only if there'll be profit in it, and there are no profits where there are few customers.
I think the shops in the central city were already struggling before the earthquake, as people preferred to shop close to home (within an 15 minute radius maybe, to get back to the original thread topic!). Much of their business came from foot traffic from office workers, and they too moved out of the central city when their offices were destroyed. So losing their central city buildings was a good reason to shut down their least profitable branches, and the insurance payouts gave them cash to invest in their more profitable branches in the suburbs.
It's the broad road (Matt. 7:13) and they're all holding hands happily singing kumbaya as they march.