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			==See also==
			* [[Walkability]]
			* [[Subdivide housing]]
			* [[Make suburbs walkable]]

Elie: Created page with "==The problem== Some cities are known to demolish perfectly good buildings in the name of walkability. Ideally, this should be avoided, because: * There's already a housing shortage. * Materials & labor are not unlimited either. * Construction has an environmental footprint. * For the same cost & resources used, they could have built the new homes elsewhere and left the old ones intact. That would help more to increase the overall housing supply. ===Why it happ..."

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Created page with "==The problem== Some cities are known to demolish perfectly good buildings in the name of walkability. Ideally, this should be avoided, because: * There's already a housing shortage. * Materials & labor are not unlimited either. * Construction has an environmental footprint. * For the same cost & resources used, they could have built the new homes elsewhere and left the old ones intact. That would help more to increase the overall housing supply. ===Why it happ..."

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==The problem==
Some cities are known to demolish perfectly good buildings in the name of [[walkability]].

Ideally, this should be avoided, because:
* There's already a [[housing shortage]].
* Materials & labor are not unlimited either.
* Construction has an environmental footprint.
* For the same cost & resources used, they could have built the new homes elsewhere and left the old ones intact. That would help more to increase the overall housing supply.

===Why it happens===
* One approach to walkability: Add more housing to neighborhoods that are already walkable.
** This requires densification, which is often achieved by demolishing houses to make room for taller condo buildings.
** Neglects other approaches to walkability:
*** Bring more amenities to the suburbs
*** Create entirely new walkable neighborhoods
* Gentrification
** In some cases, the total housing supply doesn't even increase at all; it just goes to the highest bidders.
* Policy makers wanting to avoid ''sprawl'' but misunderstanding what makes sprawl a problem {{talk|TODO: elaborate; also discuss the general tradeoff: wastefulness of "demolish+rebuild", vs deforestation of "use more land" (note that housing's land footprint is nothing compared to agriculture)}}

==Solutions / Better approaches==
* Repurpose buildings (instead of rebuilding from scratch) {{talk|TODO: talk about examples: commercial-to-residential and vice versa, also how you can convert houses into denser housing without building a whole new building. Lastly, why people haven't done that already: cultural expectations that a building has to look a certain way (inside and out) to match its particular purpose - we need to think beyond that, and stop stigmatizing cheap solutions}}
** If a building isn't ''condemned'', there's probably a solution that doesn't involve demolishing it.
* Instead of trying to add more housing to the city core, bring walkability to the other residential areas.
===Case studies===
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Elie at 01:22, 1 January 2025