@lisahoshowsky4251

3 months ago

I’m in the architecture field and it’s less often that things can’t be built in more sustainable ways, it’s that the people paying for it don’t want to spend the extra money to do it. I can only really talk about it from a North American Perspective, and my training is specifically in Canada but unless we see a massive shift in legislature and grants not just lining the pockets of developers looking to make the biggest buck we will not see the large scale infrastructure changes that can and really do need to happen. An example a lot of people are used to is Green Roofs. Soil is heavy, Water is heavy, and now you want to fully incorporate that on a structure that typically tries to shed water and has not taken that extra weight into consideration for its structure. You cannot simply slap a green roof onto an existing building without structural adaptations or without severely limiting the size and output of that kind of green system. Designing a building with a green roof incorporated is an extra expense that many see as extraneous and is often one of the first things to be cut when construction goes over budget, and it almost always goes over budget. It takes not only a visionary but someone with money and drive to see these changes manifest and so far our most vocal billionaires are more concerned with social media platforms and space😒 There’s a lot of people with some great ideas, and some are managing to manifest them on a small scale but I wish we’d see less bullshit cities of the future pipe dreams that will only benefit the 1% and more smaller but large scale changes that will make a difference for more.

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