http://www.thehydraulics.com/landscape/urban-scene-of-the-week-a-snowy-sight/ Perfect Building for Better Life Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:10:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thehydraulics.com/landscape/urban-scene-of-the-week-a-snowy-sight/comment-page-1/#comment-581 Robert Preskop Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:03:37 +0000 http://www.thehydraulics.com/?p=136#comment-581 Another major planning and redevelopment mistake has beset Buffalo again. The development of these suburban style, tacky, single family houses. These poorly built vinyl victorians are springing up all over large parts of Buffalo's east side. This is wrong and the policies that promote this suburbanization of Buffalo's east side need to be vanquished. I am well aware that much of the traditional old housing was badly deteriorated and well beyond economic repair. Many of the old houses had to be demolished. But redevelopment of these downtrodden neighborhoods should have been more urban in character meaning the design and construction of duplexes, townhouses, rowhouses, and on key intersections, mid rise apartment and condo towers. Instead of redeveloping the east side the right way, we settle for exact replicas of East Amherst and Clarence in the heart of our city. How tragically sad. Another major planning and redevelopment mistake has beset Buffalo again. The development of these suburban style, tacky, single family houses. These poorly built vinyl victorians are springing up all over large parts of Buffalo’s east side. This is wrong and the policies that promote this suburbanization of Buffalo’s east side need to be vanquished. I am well aware that much of the traditional old housing was badly deteriorated and well beyond economic repair. Many of the old houses had to be demolished. But redevelopment of these downtrodden neighborhoods should have been more urban in character meaning the design and construction of duplexes, townhouses, rowhouses, and on key intersections, mid rise apartment and condo towers. Instead of redeveloping the east side the right way, we settle for exact replicas of East Amherst and Clarence in the heart of our city. How tragically sad.

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