I wanna punch the voice that says “but won’t the homeless sleep in the bushes?”
This looks great, but I feel like the trees might become a problem to the adjacent buildings when they mature, unless they’re the type of trees that only grow tall and skinny?
Not every tree essence grows as much as oak. I know some linden trees, older than I am, that where pruned properly one or twice a year and have kept a manageable size. I think hackberry tree don’t get much thick with time and there essences of tree that are chosen to be put in the street because they don’t grow that much in European climate.
I don’t think the trees will grow much more.
I have similar trees in front of my apartment building and I love them, they make me feel like I’m living in a tree house in the summer.
It took two years to do the transformation. Do you think it’ll be difficult to do another transformation when the time comes?
Nobody wants to cut down trees once they’ve grown.
Dude, there are whole industries based on cutting down trees once they have grown.
What are you smoking? … can I have some?
Cities don’t want to pay for that. No one is backing logging equipment down a Paris side street.
But yeah, it’s not an issue. I’m sure people planted trees knowing they get bigger. Lemmings just like to point to obvious issues as if no one thought about them.
You should get a prescription, it will do wonders to your humour.
Can’t you cut trees to make them grow tall and skinny?
I don’t know, I’m not a tree expert. I mean it would be cool if that’s how it works tho
While this is nice, I do not really see any places where one can now cross the street?
Some cut-outs for pedestrians would probably be helpful for people who need to access a building on the other side.Rue du Dr Paquelin was pedestrianized so crosswalks aren’t really needed.
I don’t mean crosswalks, I mean places where people can cut through the greenery to get to the “road”.
As it stands now I don’t see a way for people to actually get to the other side of the street.Maybe they exist, but I don’t see them in the picture…
You mean like access front doors of buildings? It looks like they block everything.
Oh, I see what you mean. You’re right, if there’s a path through the bushes it’s not obvious.
I think you see the start of a path halfway down the road on both sides
Yeah. I’d do more little islands instead, which would also give space for other stuff, like benches or other seating areas, bike racks, etc.
Move the road over to one side, and give double space for greenery on the other side.
Then you can add benches, playgrounds, etc.Still… As it currently stands it is an improvement over what came before
Definitely agreed. Strictly better than cars, but there has to be something we’re missing here, else this is a huuuge pain in the ass for literally no reason.
I have to disagree. Amenities such as benchs, and playgrounds can be place into the next street but there is a need to add important vegetation at least in some streets of dense urban environment to deal with heat wave and flood issues.
The problem isn’t the vegetation; it’s the lack of outlets to the other side of the road amid the vegetation. From the perspective shown here, it’s a solid 40-ish meters until the next entrance to the sidewalk.
That is probably just perspective. By zooming, I can see two possibles places when they might be outlets.
Idk looks like a pretty short street to me I’d say it’s fine
How does one get off the sidewalk?
In the usual way trot trot
Between the bushes. How would one get off the sidewalk with the cars parked in the way?
Between the cars, they don’t fill the whole length off the street. Do you see a gap between those bushes?
Patiently
In the bottom photo I kept scanning for Will Smith and his german shepherd
He couldn’t be in the photo because he was too busy taking his underaged son to P Diddy’s sex parties.
Honestly? Looks like shit.
I agree. The 2022 pic looks like shite.
By what measure? You don’t like green?
While it looks nicer, the rent has doubled here
Rent has doubled everywhere in the past few years. Real estate industry is to blame
Yes and no. Yes because fuck big corps that buy houses and set rent price to achieve fill factor of 0.7, no because very these corps buy cheap dirty houses, renovate them, and double the rent.
I bet you don’t live in Paris or even France.
There is a lock on rent in heated housing markets for example. Not everything in the US is the same on this side of the pond.
I think your statment here is actual in reverse of what you may want to point out.
An increase in rent shows a induced demand for the property. More people are wanting to live in this location, thus the rents have gone up because of this demand. The rent did not go up because of the cost of installing those trees, but because the trees are there.
Similarly homes located near public parks, schools, hospitals, or transit may have a higher price tag because more people want said properties.
An increase in rent shows a induced demand for the property.
Nope. Increase in rent shows the pumped up scarcity.
More people are wanting to live in this location, thus the rents have gone up because of this demand.
Again nope. You are spreading propaganda without knowing it. Rent is driven by rental algorithms like Yardi and Realpage. Supply and demand do not work if the property is in the hands of few that calculate their prices using the same database and the same algorithms.
You mean shitty places with no amenities rent for the same as desirable locations because of algorithms? TIL
No, they renovate it to increase the property class, rent cost for this one, and rent prices overall
So: keep cities horrible so that the rent stays low. Got it.
Also tourists will stay away
Keep that tourism money at home! Our local restaurants can get fucked!
The rent would have doubled anyway. Paris is Paris.
nature is a costly amenity
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