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fiadhiglas: I think permanence generally is a bad idea. When things change (and things are always changing), wouldn’t it be nice if it were easier to change our buildings and infrastructure to make better use of them? How can we hope for sustainability if we continue to build things like they need to last forever, and then when they don’t, we can’t recycle any (or few) of their parts? humanscalecities: The Temporary City The book questions the need for permanent uses and solutions for sites and argues that we need to increasingly look for short and medium term uses, rather than obsess about the long term; realistically it will take a long time for the economy to achieve stable and meaningful growth and for sites to become viable again – especially with what was paid for many sites at the market peak – and in the meantime these same sites will lie vacant for many years without an effective framework for their interim use.

fiadhiglas: I think permanence generally is a bad idea. When things change (and things are always changing), wouldn’t it be nice if it were easier to change our buildings and infrastructure to make better use of them? How can we hope for sustainability if we continue to build things like they need to last forever, and then when they don’t, we can’t recycle any (or few) of their parts?

humanscalecities:

The Temporary City

The book questions the need for permanent uses and solutions for sites and argues that we need to increasingly look for short and medium term uses, rather than obsess about the long term; realistically it will take a long time for the economy to achieve stable and meaningful growth and for sites to become viable again – especially with what was paid for many sites at the market peak – and in the meantime these same sites will lie vacant for many years without an effective framework for their interim use.

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