Ccarlsson: added two new photos

2023-02-26T22:18:44Z

added two new photos

@@ Line 94: / Line 94: @@
 '''Alvin Duskin''': Yeah, I do.  This came from a book by an MIT economist named Forrester called “Urban Dynamics” in which he pointed out that a lot of things which we take as intuitively true turn out to be false.  That economic growth does not mean that you get richer, it can often mean that you can get poorer.  For example, let’s say you that decide that you’ve got some buildings that are in very bad shape, so you decide that what you’re going to do is build more housing for low income people.  So you find a place where you can build some low income housing and subsidize low income housing, and you put low income housing on that new piece of land.  What happens then is that the people who then move out of this decrepit housing which is substandard move into the new low income housing, but then somebody moves into the old housing which they’ve just left.  What happens then is you increase the number of low income people in the city by building low income housing and that’s not the solution.  The solution is that if you have available land, and you want to develop that land, build something that creates jobs for the people in the low income housing and let them solve their housing problem.  But that means that you don’t have all your low income people concentrated in one place, in one building, which causes crime and drugs and all these other problems.  The idea is to make it possible for people to get jobs and let them solve the problems of where they live or where their kids go to school and everything else.  We did this study on the [[Transamerica Pyramid|Transamerica Building]] when it was built on who got the jobs in this building, and everybody that was working in the Transamerica Building who got a decent job was living in Piedmont or Marin County.  They’re taking their car in to the city every day, causing traffic congestion in the downtown area, and to top it off paying their taxes somewhere else.  They occasionally go out and buy a cup of coffee and a necktie, and that’s the economic benefit to the city of having the population double during working hours.  So who pays the tax burden for that?  It goes on to the people who are living here, which raises the price of housing in the city and forces people to get out.  So economic development does not make the current generation of people more affluent,, it just provides opportunities for other people to come in.
 '''Marcus Duskin''': The thing I’m having problems getting my hands around is how can you reform that?  If San Francisco was planned to be a financial center, who else would benefit from it besides the well off?  That someone’s already decided that this is the way it’s going to be.
@@ Line 189: / Line 201: @@
 ''Photo Chris Carlsson''
-[[category:Famous characters]] [[category:Real estate]] [[category:Downtown]] [[category:Shoreline]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:Redevelopment]] [[category:Architecture]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:2020s]] [[category:Power and Money]]
+[[category:Famous characters]] [[category:Real estate]] [[category:Downtown]] [[category:Shoreline]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:Redevelopment]] [[category:Architecture]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:2020s]] [[category:Power and Money]] [[category:North Beach]]

Ccarlsson at 23:06, 15 September 2020

2020-09-15T23:06:36Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 16:06, 15 September 2020
Line 177:		Line 177:
	'''Alvin Duskin''': You wouldn’t come here, it would just be too expensive. So I think that’s over, just over. It’s very interesting, though, what’s happening with the Academy of Art University. The way the advertise, the way they build buildings, they way they spread out. Higher education is becoming this new cash export crop. They’re attracting kids from the rest of the country, providing housing, and they can qualify for these federal loans. These aspiring artists come out here, they get terrifically in debt, because they get their tuition and living expenses from a federal loan. That’s what’s taken the place of the freelance artists, the student artists. It’s pretty different. You’re not going to get Gregory Corso and the [[Cockettes\|Cockettes]], that’s for sure.		'''Alvin Duskin''': You wouldn’t come here, it would just be too expensive. So I think that’s over, just over. It’s very interesting, though, what’s happening with the Academy of Art University. The way the advertise, the way they build buildings, they way they spread out. Higher education is becoming this new cash export crop. They’re attracting kids from the rest of the country, providing housing, and they can qualify for these federal loans. These aspiring artists come out here, they get terrifically in debt, because they get their tuition and living expenses from a federal loan. That’s what’s taken the place of the freelance artists, the student artists. It’s pretty different. You’re not going to get Gregory Corso and the [[Cockettes\|Cockettes]], that’s for sure.

	[[category:Famous characters]] [[category:Real estate]] [[category:Downtown]] [[category:Shoreline]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:Redevelopment]] [[category:Architecture]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:Power and Money]]		[[Image:Highrises-on-Folsom-under-construction 20190112 144436.jpg]]

			'''Easterly view along Folsom Street from 1st Street, January 2019, as the new highrise corridor takes shape.'''

			''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

			[[Image:Highrise-apartments-under-construction-at-S-Van-Ness-and-Mission 20200809 162111.jpg]]

			'''Highrise building boom in the [[Bound To Fall: The Hub Neighborhood in Transition\|Hub]], between Mission and Market along South Van Ness, August 2020.'''

			''Photo Chris Carlsson''

			[[category:Famous characters]] [[category:Real estate]] [[category:Downtown]] [[category:Shoreline]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:Redevelopment]] [[category:Architecture]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:2020s]] [[category:Power and Money]]

Ccarlsson: Created page with "''' "I was there..." ''' ''Interview by Marcus Duskin, originally published [https://marcusdusk..."

2020-09-15T22:51:28Z

Created page with "''' "I was there..." ''' ''Interview by Marcus Duskin, originally published [https://marcusdusk..."

Show changes

Alvin Duskin, High Rise Hater - Revision history

Ccarlsson: added two new photos

Ccarlsson at 23:06, 15 September 2020

Ccarlsson: Created page with "''' "I was there..." ''' ''Interview by Marcus Duskin, originally published [https://marcusdusk..."