Now City Teardowns https://nowcity.co/teardowns/ Teardowns of real neighborhoods, projects and technologies: what worked, what did not, and the numbers. en-us They bought land for a garage. It's a park. https://nowcity.co/teardowns/vauban https://nowcity.co/teardowns/vauban Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT Vauban, Freiburg, Germany, 1992 to 2014. Households without cars each paid about 3,600 euros for land held for a third garage, still open ground in 2026. 33 towers, and only rent to keep them up. https://nowcity.co/teardowns/pruitt-igoe https://nowcity.co/teardowns/pruitt-igoe Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT Pruitt-Igoe, St. Louis, 1954 to 1976. Its fall was called the death of modern architecture. Historians since have looked hard at the budget. Copenhagen's furnace is a power plant. https://nowcity.co/teardowns/copenhagen-district-heating https://nowcity.co/teardowns/copenhagen-district-heating Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT District heat meets 98 percent of the city's heat demand, by the utility's count. Most of it comes from plants that also make power.