In contrast to Milan, there are hundreds of buildings greater than six stories in San Diego. I’ve been there many times and I’ve found the development pattern confusing to the point of being disorienting. The pockets of intense investments follow no discernible pattern. It is a common experience in San Diego for a street to have a series of one- and two-story buildings, then a 20-story tower, then go back to one- and two-story buildings. In a world where there is a rational relationship between the value of the land and the value of the improvement on that land, this kind of random pattern
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