> They should build up instead of sprawling like the most terrible cities in the world do
When I was in Berlin, it seemed to me people in Berlin wanted the impossible combination:
- Continue to afford to live in the city (ergo more housing in the city)
- No sprawl to keep the car traffic down (ergo still more pressure on housing in the city)
- Keeping the green spaces (so no denser housing)
- No higher buildings, or God forbid, high-risers (so no denser housing)
Or better said, you would find people, who are dead set against high-risers and would tolerate building on Tempelhofer Feld, or who are dead set against using spaces within the city (Tempelholfer Feld), but would probably tolerate higher buildings.
When I was in Berlin, it seemed to me people in Berlin wanted the impossible combination:
- Continue to afford to live in the city (ergo more housing in the city)
- No sprawl to keep the car traffic down (ergo still more pressure on housing in the city)
- Keeping the green spaces (so no denser housing)
- No higher buildings, or God forbid, high-risers (so no denser housing)
Or better said, you would find people, who are dead set against high-risers and would tolerate building on Tempelhofer Feld, or who are dead set against using spaces within the city (Tempelholfer Feld), but would probably tolerate higher buildings.
It seems now, higher buildings have won: https://www.berlin.de/rbmskzl/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/2...