resilient design Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:30:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Good ol’ Buildings Sometimes Better Than New Ones: Reconsidering Our Urban Design https://www.greenoptimistic.com/good-ol-buildings-sometimes-better-than-new-ones-reconsidering-our-urban-design-20121030/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/good-ol-buildings-sometimes-better-than-new-ones-reconsidering-our-urban-design-20121030/#respond Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:04:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=27423 Cities are always evolving, often out with the old and in with the new. Some old things are restored, while others are razed and make way for highways with increased traffic capacity, or high-rise office buildings. This seems to be the way of progress in urban design, but what happens when disaster strikes? September 11, […]

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