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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (2156)	4/25/2001 5:30:13 AM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) of 24758

Jorj, Densities. There seems to be a fixation with skyscrapers. Great densities can be achieved with buildings only 5 to 10 stories high if the ground floors have commercial applications and providing the developers are allowed to disregard the convenience of the automobile (cities willl always have horrible traffic since everyone wants to be there, so lets live with it. If it's not noisy, dirty and crowded with folk living RIGHT THERE it's not a city). A place like LA needs to have building requirements to fit local geology -- that of the particular lot. It's very likely those skyscrapers fit their local geology. The mortgagers/insurers will have required it. So far it seems they haven't required it of single family buildings or of smaller multi family buildings. Smaller buildings, generally. A geological survey of LA suitable for establishing a database for building requirements of each lot could be done with ground penetrating radar. Probably fairly quickly and not at huge expense. Raw data might already exist in a NASA file. This discussion started out on the topic of diamond lanes and such possibly reducing pollution. Social planners are hopelessly outclassed by events: Cities were hollowed out by the automobile as it made the villages attached to the city by the streetcar evanescent -- could not be managed by a person on foot. . ( LA seems extreme in that its suburbs got hollowed out by further suburbs at the same time as its downtown was ravaged). So we drive a lot. Some of us will drive a lot until such time as the suburbs are hollowed out by revived cities with greater densities which can be handled more easily by pedestrians. This will happen as the boomers move from the suburbs to town. Others will continue to drive a lot -- the poor might even drive more in old polluting vehicles as they will be banished to the suburbs which will be more dangerous than their old places in the city (worse tax base, greater isolation). This has been going on in LA for some time hasn't it? Diamond lanes etc. won't cut pollution much because dwellings and businesses are too spread out and will continue to be so even after the boomers go to to town. Mass transit doesn't work under such conditions. Single car and driver will continue to be the normal thing. We have to have vehicles which pollute less. There are investment opportunities in all this, I think. Frankw

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