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Come in and find out.
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In reality buildings like this have a mailroom where packages are dropped.
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Correct, and the drop-off and pick-up is done through QR codes over WeChat, here is a (German) documentary about this very building showing the process:
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Problem is that mailrooms are useless for food delivery drivers.
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Seems like an easy problem to fix. Have a designated meeting/drop location
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mailrooms are useless for food delivery
You've clearly never had snailmail stew
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Sorry mate, elevator is out of service because someone pulled the fire alarm
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Imagine the parking required if this were in the states
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I long for mixed used housing without an automobile parking requirement in an area with ubiquitous mass transit.
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Certain areas of NYC is what you want. Expensive though. I lived a block from a 15 minute train ride to work at one point. Every type of food you could want within 15 minute walk. Bus up the block took you to Costco.
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Maybe you could make part of the rent A. First floor car rental place. Mass transit for everyday stuff and maybe a thousand cars for immediate rental for people that need to do strange things. Include box trucks pickups, yada, yada.
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The building would probably extend like eight football fields underground
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eight football fields
How much is that in recumbent giraffes?
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probably half of Texas
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Something weird and amazing about China is the changes in verticality. You can walk into a building off a plaza, take the elevator DOWN ten levels…and walk out onto a street.
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I remember watching some stuff about cities where it feels like you went out on street level but really you're still XX floors up.
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Odds are it was a video about Chongqing. It's an engineering miracle that a city of that scale can even exist on such challenging terrain.
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You can do exactly the same in Wellington, New Zealand. There's a bunch of buildings with street frontage on the Terrace and Lambton Quay, with something like ten floors of difference.
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There's something incredibly cyberpunk about that. Give it a few hundred years and people won't know where the bottom is where sunlight never reaches.
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some cities are built on mountains.
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If you can put a city in one building that beats driving in snow
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You can also just build trains
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whynotboth.jpg
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I want to see dead malls turned into mini cities.
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The sewage pipe at the bottom must be ginormous
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Sewage? ...pipe?
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"800 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one..."
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Awesome OST intensifies
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Think it's composed by Hans, Goransson, Jackman, or Djawadi?
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We have builds like this, but not as big in Taiwan. They almost always have an area downstairs that the food is placed so people can come down and get it.
I imagine they also have the same thing in China.
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D'you place the order before or after heading downstairs?
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I order first, then wait until the UberEATS or food panda person says they are close and take the elevator down to get it. Usually I take down my trash at the same time since the trash area is close to the main area.
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If there is tofu dreg in the construction, the architect and builders are gonna charged with a genocide. (if building collapse, thousands die)
And this is not because American propaganda or whatever. My family is from mainland China and my mother told me about all those tofu-dreg stuff. To be very clear, this is not the people's fault, its not individuals being "lazy", its a systematic issue. There's so much corruption and bribery.
Food safety is another one of the big issues. For a supposedly "socialist" government, they sure are doing quite a lot regulating food, by "a lot" I mean jack shit.
I'm suspecting if my older brother is being an asshole because he lived there like approximately 5 years longer there and suffered some food poisoning (like maybe lead) or something and totally has zero empathy. Parents are also shitty. I mean there has got to be lead or something.
(No I did not live in one of these mega buildings lol, mine was more like a 10 story building, no elevators, lackluster of safety barriers. I hate that place lol, so much bad memories of my abusive older brother.)
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Food safety is another one of the big issues.
They cracked down on people cleaning cooking oil and reselling it as food oil again, they executed the people responsible for poisonous baby formula, they seem to do something when it becomes noisy.
I got mild food poisoning in China less frequently than in Korea or Vietnam.
I can't compare to Japan, because while the food safety seems very good, its not because of regulation, restaurants there don't even have regular inspections.
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It's locust mentality, same thing happens in India or any country with high density + a culture of low trust.
If the CCP wasn't headed by morons like Mao (and Xi by extension, who for some unfathomable reason wants to emulate him) who brought the destruction of Confucius teachings and heritage through the cultural revolution and terrible economic policies, they had a baseline culture to foster a more cohesive and trusting society.
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Neighbors noises final boss.
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Bugs and smells too
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That's my entire town in one building
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that's 2 to 3 cities worth of people
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I'm always confused by where people draw the line between a city and a town
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We need this in North America if we ever want to solve the housing crisis tbh. I'm talking Soviet-style, grey concrete commieblocks. Yes the buildings are ugly, probably lack amenities, cheaply constructed and not well maintained, but we desperately need cheap, dense housing if we're going to bring down the costs. Building more luxury Manhattan condos and suburban single family abominations does nothing to bring down housing prices.
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I'm from Poland.
I’m talking Soviet-style, grey concrete commieblocks
So the commieblocks are always:
- few minutes walk from school, kindergarten, grocery, doctor's office, post, dentist and bus stops
- sane distance from another block
- either surrounded by good greenery, or next to a park
- surprisingly good quality
- small elevator
- little parking spaces
Vs "modern" blocks:
- large elevator
- the blocks are so close, if you open your window you could pee in the neighbours coffee cup
- usually surrounded by pavement, cement, or car parking
- better at noise reduction
- you're more likely to need a car to go to doctor's office or drop your kids off, or go to the grocer.
To me the ideal is the commie era urban planning with modern techniques, but that's uncommon.
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Commie urban planning with modern blocks, exactly my ideal too
Though for density the blocks being close together is beneficial.
Oh and I’d like to see more ground floors of residential buildings used for services. Have a dentist in your building, small grocery store in the next one and a restaurant in another. Though I do think that’s becoming more common with new builds here in Estonia.
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With climate change cities can't be made without trees everywhere, they cool down the streets so much
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We don't even necessarily need those, fucking row townhouses like old Chicago or New York would be a massive improvement in space usage and density alone. Just modify the design to have a garage in the back and make the alleyway larger. Hell you could narrow the front road if you do it right.
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3-5 story housing with no parking works in France/Europe. No elevators/pools is huge cost savings. Room for cars ridiculously expensive where land is ridiculously expensive. Bikeable/walkable communities FTW. 5th story units would be cheaper, but young people need cheaper.
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That’s how you create undesirable neighborhoods which eventually turn into ghettos. Many cities in Europe tried that and many of those neighborhoods quickly became unsafe and derelict. Like many of the banlieus in Paris or the Bijlmer in Amsterdam. Because people who eventually have the means to move out will leave asap. Nobody wants to settle in such a neighborhood. So only the poor and desperate stay. Which in turn means local business will leave as well.
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I agree with the general mission of FuckCars, but it always seems full of people who don't care about anything of what goes into a prosperous city that isn't the amount of cars on the road.
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Look at how Vienna works. Contrary to other places, they did government housing blocks really well there.
- The blocks are spread throughout the whole city. That means, there's no really bad place where all the undesirables are concentrated. This mixes the population. For example, I went to a school in one of the inner districts. In my class we had fresh immigrants that could hardly speak German. We had kids from poor families. We had middle class kids. We had kids who's parents were immigrants but who were born there. We had a kid who's parents played in the Vienna Philharmonic. We had two really rich kids descending from former nobility. We had a kid who was the son of a well-known lawyer.
- The blocks do have an income limit when you get the flat, but that limit is very high (it easily covers everyone in the middle class) and it only applies when you move in. If your income increases afterwards you can still stay in that flat and still pay the same as anyone else. That means that you got a decent mix of people living in these blocks. There's not only poor people there.
- Most of the blocks are actually really nice. There's parks between the blocks with nice, old trees. Many of the blocks even have swimming pools or other special extras.
Check out for example this one here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alterlaa
It can be done well. It doesn't have to be crap.
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Yeah, there aren’t really any Estonians moving to Lasnamäe. Some live there because it’s cheap, but you’re going to have to speak Russian to talk to your neighbours. Of course if you do, you can get drugs fairly easily, which is a plus.
It’s not actually unsafe or super criminal though, it’s just very undesirable and tends to attract the lower strata.
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The problem is that, for the property owning class, the unaffordability of homes is broadly a feature and not a bug.
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For the property investor class. I assure you, the average homeowner isn’t happy about the idea of increased property tax, nor having to spend more if the want to upgrade to a bigger home.
Of course if you’ve got a mortgage and property prices go up, you can leverage that into and easier upgrade because you can use the increased equity in your property as collateral. I know someone who got a huge boost during COVID that way. Tiny studio to 3 bedroom. But mortgage payment went up 2 or 3 times too, so that doesn’t work if property becomes unaffordable altogether.
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We need mass housing, but also a focus on aesthetics.
I noticed my area has done a nice job after visiting Chicago. Chicago was concrete, roads and parking lots, and barren. Fly back to metro Vancouver and even worst neighborhood has beautitul construction, parks, trees and flower beds everywhere. -
Yeah but I'd also like to see such huge buildings in the middle of nature. Imagine 10.000 people with their own daycare, school or even medic / doctor surrounded by fields and food forests so they can produce their own food. Generates it's own power, centralized super efficient heat storage system for winter, cleans up it's own water etc. And have a fast mass transport to the next hub, like a chain of such buildings a few miles apart linking to the next big city. That's my solar punk.
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It's basically a whole city in a building. The big advantage for this is that the city is not taking up massive amounts of space.
American Fork, Utah, has 33k inhabitants on 19 square kilometres. The building in the OP has 20-30k inhabitants on 0.04 square kilometres, which would mean that if you house all of American Fork like that, you'd get between 18.92 and 18.96 of untouched nature in return.
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Cheap construction and poor maintainability is more expensive in the long run, I think it's possible to create affordable housing while still having longevity and a reasonable access to amenities in mind.
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I honestly think commieblocks don't look that bad.
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We need mass housing, but also a focus on aesthetics.
I noticed my area has done a nice job after visiting Chicago. Chicago was concrete, roads and parking lots, and barren. Fly back to metro Vancouver and even worst neighborhood has beautitul construction, parks, trees and flower beds everywhere. -
Ok this is a soft rebuttal because I agree we need to fix affordability asap, but is intensification really the right path?
Like something else needs to be fixed or these super condos will just enable politicians to import even more people to maintain the unaffordability.
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What's even the point of living if we have to live like packages sitting in a warehouse? Living for the sake of being alive sounds like torture.
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I'd much rather a cleaner healthier city scape to live in than a slightly bigger personal home space. I'm a garden person though so i prefer to be outdoors.
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It’s Peach Trees in real life.
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20 to 30 thousand? That’s a pretty big margin for error.
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They probably don't know the actual occupancy. Some apartments might be empty. Some might be designed for 3 people but only 1 lives there. 30k is probably the design capacity
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If the design capacity was 25000, it would mean that an assumption that 20% possible error would get you that range.
That seems like a decent "outside approximation" range. Yeah some 3 person apartments will have only 1 person, but some 1 persons will have 3
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fire hazard
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Got nothing on Kowloon. That was a marvel. Scary, probably deadly, but a marvel nonetheless.
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They have lockers to drop off stuff.
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I don’t trust China after their tofu-dreg reputation. I’m sure this building is structurally sound but I just don’t trust living in it.
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Betcha the delivery guy delivers for one or more from many takeout food spots that are probably located inside the building itself.
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High density housing bad and dystopian. Homelessness good. Now build more single family homes with lawns pls. /s
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Low-rise to mid-rise high-density housing, sure, but high-rises are bad, yes. They cost more to maintain, they either prevent adequate sunlight at lower levels or need to be spaced apart wide enough to defeat the point, and they tend to be worse for social isolation and anti-social behaviour.
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High rises give way to urban density and walkable neighborhoods. Any costs in maintenance is easily offset by freeing hundreds of people from the costs of car ownership, medical costs due to sedentary lifestyles in unwalkable suburbs, provide more affordable and accessible community funded childcare, better access to healthy foods than in food deserts enforced by zoning, and reduction in homelessness related crimes.
Nothing is more socially isolating than car-centric suburban hell where anyone too young or too old to drive are deemed ineligible to leave their house independently and participate in society. Nothing creates anti-social behavior like forcing homelessness and desperation onto people who cannot afford to live in cities that are lacking in affordable public housing.
Speaking as someone who has lived in both urban highrise public housing and suburban hells in different parts of the world, the most socially isolating experience by far has been living in car-depedent suburbs with piss poor public transit, especially as someone who cannot drive often. Every will eventually become disabled and cannot drive. It's just a matter of when. When that time comes, you better hope you can afford a retirement home or to have someone drive you, because if you can't, you're stuck right where you are. And that times sooner the less walking you find the time to do in a day.
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So it's Peachtree towers in MegaCity 1.
Judge Dredd approves.
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This is dumb. You can't let delivery guys/gals up into the hallways unaccompaioned in an apartment building this size. You have to go down to the front door
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China: Bulldozes Kowloon Walled City
Also China:
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Man that make a fun video game.
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Mailroom aside, if a delivery guy is fine crossing a city with 20/30k people horizontally in traffic, I don't really see why this is such a bad thing when you break it down.
I count 35 floors, so you can cut it down to ~850 people on each floor after an elevator ride, and a building like this will probably have at least 4 elevator areas sectioning the building almost equally.
So you're down to about ~210 people after entering the right side of the building, that's like a big street / small neighborhood (and how far you have to walk should scale closely to that). And with this much people in one area you can really easily batch deliveries. And a delivery place will probably settle quite closely to such a hub of people anyways.
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at least 4 elevator areas sectioning the building almost equally.
each elevator lobby also has its own address. It's less confusing than you'd imagine, and also any delivery drivers will have been there before.
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Also: big buildings usually have cargo elevators. It would be insanity to "door-dash" every last package on the passenger cars, limited by what could be carried or lugged on a hand-truck. Instead, they would load up the whole car from the truck on a loading dock, then deliver one floor at a time, start/stopping the car where needed.
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Luckily each unit has a number that indicates the floor and each floor probably has a floormap near the elevator, so you won't have to go knocking on random doors until you find the person.
Same thing for making deliveries in cities of several million. If there's an effective addressing system, it's usually trivial to find the destination, or at least to get very close to it and switch to "ok wtf is going on here with the last bit of this address?" mode.
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One single letter box.
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They probably have a number of diverse food kitchens in there, and would most likely "buy local", anyway. That building being basically a slum, I doubt that there is much delivery from the outside.
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Delivery guy was there.
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Just do what my delivery drivers do. Leave it at the main entrance and mark it delivered.
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How do people live like this. Id jump.
Its sad. There's enough land on earth for every adult to have 1.5 acres.
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We just need to wipe out all the animals and forests first, but we're on track for everyone to have their own real soon tho.
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You can have 1.5 acres of Sahara desert. I'll pass...
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Iunno, ignoring concerns about the building being structurally sound, this seems pretty great. Assuming there are some amenities inside as well most of what you need is close by, and after going out the (admittedly probably 2-3 minutes away) front door you're greeted by a small park.
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where is the parking
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They are not going anywhere. It's self-contained.
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where's the airport then?
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