Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: The Real Estate Espresso Podcast
Episode: Intensification is Eco Friendly
Description: On today’s show we are talking about how maturing cities handle growth and development.
There are two costs associated with growth. There is the initial cost, and then there is the lifecycle cost.
Buildings and neighbourhoods go through cycles of development, stagnation, decline and renewal. Cities therefore go through cycles as well.
When a city is growing it costs money to build roads and schools and infrastructure like water treatment and sewage treatment. These costs are initial costs that are often paid for by de...