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Originally Posted by aaron38
Why can't that be built anymore? Since when? I was in Nuremberg Germany last year I stayed at City Center Apartments in this building. (Right side of alley, behind the tree). It's not pre-war construction, but it felt fairly new and modern. But it blends right in. Had an elevator for accessibility. Build these everywhere.
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Aside from the architecture not being attractive, there is a difference between sticking modern buildings into an existing 19th century urban fabric, and building a new pre-automobile urban fabric from scratch.
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