61 At its most intense and costly is a conversion of the nineteenth-century Exchange
Building in lower Manhattan: net density 605 units per acre – a Costas Kondylis project
depicted in Steven Fader’s Density by Design,2000.
62 This is one area (the other being the standard suburb) where according to the 1999
(UK) ‘Rogers Report’ ‘over the next 25 years 60 percent of new buildings should be
built on previously developed land’; which addresses the sociological threat of urban
decline while factoring in sustainable ideals.
63 There are few opportunities for reinvestment which produce a payback. Between the
wars suburbia was short-changed at inception (unusable backland reserves, low-grade
utilities).
64 This is denied as an option when advisory initiatives are regarded as open to legal
risk, implicating officials or their administration as a result of the modern complexity
for withholding actual practical advice on how and what to do.
65 There is also the British tradition of town centre revitalization, summarized in the UK
Department of the Environment 1994 report on PPG6 Vital and Viable Town Centres.
66 Available in soulless electronic form to the housebound and carless, and the rural poor,
by the pernicious EHS (electronic home shopping) service.
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