What are some of the characteristics of European CBDs?
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Answer: More people live in the CBDs of European cities than those of the United States. Wealthy people are especially attracted to residences in European CBDs. A central location provides proximity to the region's best shops, restaurants, cafes, and cultural facilities. Wealthy people are also attracted by the opportunity to occupy elegant residences in carefully restored, beautiful old buildings.
To serve these residents, European CBDs contain consumer services, such as markets, bakeries, and butchers. Some European CBDs ban motor vehicles from busy streets, thus emulating one of the most attractive attributes of large shopping malls—pedestrian only walkways.
On the other hand, European CBDs are less dominated by business services than U.S. CBDs. European CBDs display a legacy of low-rise structures and narrow streets, built as long ago as medieval times. The most prominent structures may be churches and former royal palaces. Some European cities try to preserve their historic CBDs by limiting high-rise buildings. After several highrise offices were permitted to be built in Paris, for example, the public outcry was so great that officials banned further ones.
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