Speaking as an engineer, (and this never happens, so take note) I agree with the architect. The author misspeaks when it comes to high rise buildings; They suck.

Nobody wants to live in a city with cheap rent and lots of public transportation. I mean some freakshows convince themselves that NYC is a good place to live, but i want my city gentrified as fuck with lots of parking. Cities with lots of diverse homeless people hassling me for change and assaulting me in between…

I agree with that urbansim, but largely outside of Asia, you don’t see that form of vertical urbanism. Japan’s new vertical urbanism puts to shame what everyone else is doing, such as Abeno Harukas. This coming from a country who pioneered ultra-high density low-rise with the highest private, single family home…

*looks around Paris* with 3 times the density of Seattle and a height limit of 6 storeys (which has only be lifted in some areas in 2010, after the city far achieve density dwarfing that of Seattle).

That’s a good point. I’d readily concede that tall buildings may be more aesthetically constrained. I like a lot of them, but most new glass-wall towers are pretty boring and lame.

The reason I chose L.A. over NYC.

It’s not weird, it’s the only response to the crazy rise in rents in big cities. Big cities have a huge housing shortage that’s restricting their economies and holding young workers back. It’s the single biggest urban planning problem we have. The only way to solve the problem is to allow more people to live in the…

There’s a crazy weird move from young-ish journalists (all over this site, Matty Iglesias, etc.) that cities need to just build, build, build, up, up, and up. They think it will solve most economic issues. They don’t appear to have any experience with the issue beyond “well I moved from the suburbs to the city 18…

Exactly. Building an 11-story building is difficult enough, a 40-story building isn’t necessary. And it messes with the human scale of the area (not that I know anything about the site).

No...no no no... As an architect I vehemently disagree with your remark that we need more skyscrapers. I can backup with the massive reams of reasons why skyscrapers are more destructive to society than “landscaper” or more commonly called “landscape urbanism”. But please for the sake no not trying to piss off a…

You could at least ctrl+f the article if you aren’t going to read it :)

Deer populations are culled all the time in other areas because of environmental issues like this. I don’t see what the difference is. If you kill the male deer, there will be fewer deer reproducing. Sounds like this researcher thinks deer reproduce asexually.

isn’t there also like a giant fungus thing that spans over North America?Maybe not considered one organism or its combined weight doesn’t match up with these trees.

This is exactly what I was thinking as I read this article. Wolves may as well be nature’s “silver bullet”. If only those damn Germans hadn’t made wolves the bad guy in pretty much every fable, maybe we would look at them differently today.

If you get venison in a store or restaurant here it either came from a deer farm or New Zealand where they are completely overrun with red stags. They actually hunt those from helicopter and will just slaughter a ton of them and not even use the meat they are such a problem over there (and an invasive species). One…

Good point. Passenger pigeons are a prime example. And look at what the bush-meat trade is doing for Africa’s wildlife.

Can’t we just reintroduce human hunters in the mean time. I mean it’s not like deer are endangered.

Reintroducing wolves will absolutely fix this problem. Here’s a short video showing the drastic effects reintroducing wolves into Yellowstone had on the rivers and forests:

If only there was a delicious way to control the deer population....

The crazy thing is venison is delicious. Mule deer, eh, not so great but venison in general is good.