Overbuilding and its impact on the environment
This post was prompted by a comment on an entry I'd made earlier today, about the practice of "tear-downs" - tearing down an existing building, replacing it with something more modern and (in the case of housing) larger than might be necessary. I wanted to expand on something I thought might be implied in the aforementioned comment. Such "tear-downs" do have a noticeable impact on the environment, because the practice was so prevalent during the years of the recent housing boom. People would... Sign in to see full entry.