San Francisco’s Skyline, Now Inescapably Transformed by Tech
San Francisco grows at a positively glacial pace compared to even mature cities like London. Heck, even downtown Los Angeles rapidly outpaces SF in construction. While at the same time SF arguably has more money and demand for growth then both those places by a giant margin.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if Sacramento is adding more leasable square footage a year than SF.<p>It&#x27;s not tech that&#x27;s ruined the city, it&#x27;s anti-growth NIMBYs that have caused the existing real estate prices to fly off to the Moon and critical infrastructure to stall in the courts for years.<p>If the argument is about &quot;increased traffic&quot; then they&#x27;re simply wrong. Forcing people to drive in from El Sobrante or San Leandro because of a refusal to build more convenient housing, that&#x27;s the policy that causes more traffic. Homes will be built somewhere.<p>If it&#x27;s against the carbon footprint of new construction then use carbon negative cement, have rooftop gardens, and use solar windows. We need to start transforming our cities anyway.<p>And if the argument is against &quot;greedy developers&quot; then work on not for profit community housing projects built on land trusts. &quot;Build nothing&quot; is not a reasonable option