How long before all the older buildings begin to be demolished and replaced? 50, A 100 years, 150, more?

Question

Are there large scale plans for the cities of the future. Green cities possibly? Futuristic skyscrapers?

Answer 1

No : The head to the Body is somewhere else, You know where,

Answer 2

You pose an interesting question. This year according to World Watch Institute there are more people living in cities, we are becoming urbanized. With the influx of more people in the city where do you think they will be housed? Not in that  two story apartment complex built thirty years ago with outdated plumbing and electric. Alas, we shall build a more efficient four story to maximize profit and recoup a larger return from less maintainance. Yes, they will and have already started tearing down buildings in some growing cities to make way for bigger and better buildings. Sure they'll keep the old ones for nostalgias sake.How many of you have noticed the price of land skyrocket in the last twenty years and the size of the parcels diminish? Fifty years from now you won't be able to buy a forty acre parcel they'll be split into fives and will cost just as much as a forty does now. Population, population, population.

I have seen personally, buildings come down with a wrecking ball that brought a tear to my eye to see such a grand ,hand crafted structure that took years to build and was destroyed in a matter of hours with nary a flinch all for the sake of progress.

Answer 3

they won't be demolished. old buildings will just be renovated. probably, they will just demolish buildings that are declared condemned.

Answer 4

The great cathedrals of Europe are many hundreds of years old and will never be demolished. Many historic building all over the world are over 150 years old and still in use. There is no plan to rebuild everything every so many years.

Answer 5

Probly not for a long time

They wont just tear it down for anything.

It depends on the condition of the building if its in good shape then no time soon my grandparents live in a house from the 1800's and its in perfect condition. Plus cities wont just tear down a historic building with out good reason like if its condimed or something.

Answer 6

Probably never.  There will always be a few buildings that are deemed to valuable to be destroyed.

Answer 7

There are buildings in the Middle East that are thousands of years old and still habitable. Before anyone says that the area is too dry to damage the buildings, I suggest you visit during the rainy season.

If we want to spend the money, we can match that sort of longevity now.

Answer 8

If you get on wikipedia and look up supertall skyscapers you'll get a list of about 75 super tall skyscrapers(over 1000) feet in construction...but I don't know if any of them have solar cells, ect. on them, but they are probably just using more energy since they are so huge and they just keep getting bigger...but sooner or later we'll have to move to 'green' buildings and skyscapers, probably in the next 15-20 years when ever peak oil and natural gas hit hard...almost 2/3's of the worlds energy is depleted.