2010/10/20 John F. Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com>: > Dieter Driest may have heard a garbled description of "urban renewal", a > now-largely-discredited urban-planning technique where large areas of > substandard housing were torn down and replaced by government-built public > housing, what the British would term council estates. Some of the land was > used for new housing, some used for other large projects such as highway > construction. I am not aware of any cases of large areas simply being > abandoned; downtown land is too valuable for this to be likely. Current > urban-planning philosophy calls for mixing low-income and moderate-income > housing in the same neighborhoods.
yes sure, simply abandoned wouldn't hit it, but the structure changed entirely from dense to open space, with huge amount of surface parking, which is not exactly the typical centre use. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
