Too much money is wasted on repairing old buildings that should be used to knock them down and build new ones. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Many people believe that maintaining old

buildings

has wasted

extensive

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amount of money

whereas

it was more logical to demolish the old structures and supplant them

by

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more modern ones. In

this

essay, I will argue that old

buildings

ought to be knocked down and replaced with new ones as the cost of doing so is reasonably lower than the

retrofiting

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retrofitting

damaged structures, and

also

this

shift towards modernity gives a substantial edge to the future residents of the city. One of the main

reason

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for inclining more towards new

buildings

rather than keeping old constructions is the financial comparison between the two

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. Building a structure at the site of an old facility

,

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requires bulldozing the previous construction, emptying the place

from

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debries

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debris

, providing a new

archituctural

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architectural

and structural design, and

then

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to build

this

new looking

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building.

Although

this

entire process seems frustrating, less money would be spent than in a situation

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existing

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structure is to be repaired.

This

is because, not only enhancing an existing structure is more hindrance, but

also

there are fewer experts, with the certified knowledge and

experties

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expertise

of being able to perform

such

projects.

Hence

,

retrofiting

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retrofitting

is a more expensive scheme than building from scratch.

Moreover

, from the

prespective

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perspective

of future residents, it would be better to live in a modern-looking building than one which has an outdated appearance.

For instance

, in most big cities, purchasing and renting a newly constructed building is much more expensive than

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one, to the extent that only families with a higher financial status

is

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able to live in these modern-looking complexes.

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,

lower income

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families have to endure older structures. In conclusion, I would argue that outdated

buildings

should be replaced by newer ones on the grounds that

this

will be more economically beneficial for builders, and

further

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this

is the more

favored

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option of residents to live in a place

that is

built recently.