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Re:"Americans sense that something is wrong with the places ... by enf on Thursday December 16, 2010 @04:52PM (#2013900)
The reason you will never see any six-story buildings built is the building code. Four stories is the tallest you can legally build with wood framing; higher than that, you effectively need steel framing, and the code requirements for those don't make any economic sense until you get to 10 stories. In between is a dead zone where it is uneconomic to build.
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Re:"Americans sense that something is wrong with the places ... by anigbrowl on Thursday December 16, 2010 @11:07PM (#2015123)
Interesting to know! I'm OK with 10-storey buildings, I think we could build a ton of those in areas like SoMa without injuring the character of the city any.
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