The problem with these old European tourist-heavy cities is that they’ve stopped growing and created this zero-sum competition for space, where every space taken over by tourists crowds out a local. It doesn’t have to be like that though nytimes.com/2021/03/31/tra…
There is also some benefit to “destroying” spaces through overdevelopment. In a healthy city, neighborhoods should rise and fall...charming district destroyed by overbuilding, tourists move onto somewhere else, not-so-charming area is taken over by immigrants who don’t need charm
What’s the point of an ancient old city center anyway if no locals dare set foot there for fear of vomiting, screaming 25-year-old tourists? Who’s it really benefitting?
You know those 1980s skyscrapers on the eastern side of Manhattan’s Financial District? In the ’50s that was a charming, gentrifying loft district called Coenties Slip. Now it’s a place to make a middle-class salary, clock out at 5, and head home to SE Queens. Was that a mistake?
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