But the first picture is cute, I love coloured houses - plus, the houses in the first picture were probably built in the 1910's, and the skyscrapers will be a whole lot more recent, so people do seem to be building up.
Also, no way could I live in anywhere higher than the 5th or 6th floor, I wouldn't be able to go near the windows :(
I agree, although some places are quaint and part of our culture and therefore tourist industry, other places we do need to advance. There are going to be a fair few new skyscrapers built in London within the next few years, some of them look quite amazing.
The trouble is, the cost of bulding upwards rises exponentially with each level, which isn't a financially viable option unless you actually have no space and a lot of people need to be, like in a CBD in a city. Add to that the fact that they can be tiresome to navigate about, the safety limitations and people quite like having their own land, especially a garden; and it's difficult to convince people.
We can always try to reclaim land from the sea like the Japanese or the Dutch I suppose.
Maybe it's more a case of city planning, as you say, but the trouble is I guess that when most of the old buildings in Britain were built city planning wasn't such an issue, providing more buildings was the absolute priority, independent of where they were placed.
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Also, no way could I live in anywhere higher than the 5th or 6th floor, I wouldn't be able to go near the windows :(
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The trouble is, the cost of bulding upwards rises exponentially with each level, which isn't a financially viable option unless you actually have no space and a lot of people need to be, like in a CBD in a city. Add to that the fact that they can be tiresome to navigate about, the safety limitations and people quite like having their own land, especially a garden; and it's difficult to convince people.
We can always try to reclaim land from the sea like the Japanese or the Dutch I suppose.
Maybe it's more a case of city planning, as you say, but the trouble is I guess that when most of the old buildings in Britain were built city planning wasn't such an issue, providing more buildings was the absolute priority, independent of where they were placed.
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