Also I don't understand how people can view the history of the place they live as an inconvenience, going as far as to say even when something should be preserved it should at least be demolished and moved elsewhere. It's a shame very few people really understand the value in keeping this.
What makes the history here worth erasure, or insignificant to the point it should be relocated? Do you really want to live in a place that already more and more each day, looks like a procedurally generated AI nightmare where every building looks like the same monochrome slop as everything else in North America? Do you think Dijon or Lausanne would be the cities they were if they bulldozed their history, built stroads everywhere and invited in multinational corporations and REITs to turn it into some soulless hell scape? Every other pro-urbanist progressive strokes themselves when thinking of how great European or Asian cities are, but they're great because they don't make these sort of mistakes. Why would you want to advocate for more of this? Do you know how much history was lost in the former USSR - be it in Mongolia or Russia - because they straight up flattened old cities to build thousands of horrible Khrushchevka apartments that are now, basically, slums? Or what the Chinese have erased in recent years?
Every old building you knock down (or just move) is a piece of history you can't get back and it's so weird to me how many people advocate for this...and for what? An ugly condo tower? A parkette that'd probably just fill up with old Tim Hortons cups?
What makes the history here worth erasure, or insignificant to the point it should be relocated? Do you really want to live in a place that already more and more each day, looks like a procedurally generated AI nightmare where every building looks like the same monochrome slop as everything else in North America? Do you think Dijon or Lausanne would be the cities they were if they bulldozed their history, built stroads everywhere and invited in multinational corporations and REITs to turn it into some soulless hell scape? Every other pro-urbanist progressive strokes themselves when thinking of how great European or Asian cities are, but they're great because they don't make these sort of mistakes. Why would you want to advocate for more of this? Do you know how much history was lost in the former USSR - be it in Mongolia or Russia - because they straight up flattened old cities to build thousands of horrible Khrushchevka apartments that are now, basically, slums? Or what the Chinese have erased in recent years?
Every old building you knock down (or just move) is a piece of history you can't get back and it's so weird to me how many people advocate for this...and for what? An ugly condo tower? A parkette that'd probably just fill up with old Tim Hortons cups?