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Oh this is hilarious. It's like a Zuma Dogg "Dumb Growth" article but from the U.K.Hey Villaraiahole and Garshady...looks like you shady clowns aren't fooling anyone in the world. They're even laughing at you in England, y'all. (YOU BIG DUMMIES! YOU'RE DESTROYING THE DNA OF THE CITY...AND THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS IT. YOU ARE GONNA BURN AT THE KARMA STAKE ON JUDGMENT DAY FOR YOUR ACTIONS!)
From The Economist
United States
Redesigning cities
Tackling the hydra
Mar 27th 2008 | LOS ANGELES
Its politicians are determined to turn Los Angeles into a normal city
Excerpts:Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles' mayor, turned up to declare it a model for future development. The event made the evening news. There can be few cities the size of Los Angeles where the prospect of a nine-storey office complex would cause such a fuss.
Los Angeles has long epitomised car-oriented sprawl. As early as 1946 the historian Carey McWilliams judged it “a collection of suburbs in search of a city”.
Last summer the city council changed zoning rules to allow tiny apartments to be built in and around downtown Los Angeles. On March 19th it rejected a plan to put 5,600 homes on the city's northern frontier, signalling that the metropolis must now grow up, not out. From next month developers will be allowed to build blocks of flats up to 35% bigger than previously, so long as they include some cheap housing.
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