Instead of making tens of thousands of buildings, why can't the government make a single colossal bad boy that would house the entire population of a city?
Instead of making tens of thousands of buildings...
Andrew Cooper
Aaron Lee
They could just use your mom
Lucas Clark
Colton Kelly
you don't need tens of thousands and you don't need a mega building. just make smarter homes, large mixed income buildings, other duplex triplex units, single family homes in smaller numbers. that's all you need. SF housing problems can be solved if they just built 3 story homes instead of 1 story homes. its retarded
Leo Peterson
They don't want to solve the housing problem. They want the houses to retain their value, otherwise people who matter get angry.
Luke Baker
>otherwise people who matter get angry.
in SF its just a bunch of fucking privately owned homes by people who bought ages ago. wtf are you talkign about its not like elon musk or bezos is behind everything lmao
Levi Watson
i'm too drunk for figure this out right now but i think it has something to do with
no wait i know. i have an analogy. it's like the way you body has billions of cells instead of your body just being 1 giant cell. something about it being easier to make a lot of cells than keep one big one alive.
actually maybe it's nothing like that.
i dunno man. it's a good question. i wouldnt wanna live in one house with all the smelly neighbours i have though. so that's one possible answer too. we like walls between ourselves and the walls going around our house are the walls that keep noise out the best.
Sebastian Morgan
Is that you?
Angel Campbell
You forgot to mention which problem you think this would solve
Kevin Rodriguez
the internal service networks would end up occupying too much of the structure
water for instance, would require aqueducts larger than a freeway before it's distributed to everyone, same for every other adduction
and this would cause concentrated vulnerabilities that could completely stop everyone's productivity at the slightest problem
a distributed architecture is much more resilient
Jacob Fisher
It will be cool. Cool enough to reduce depression and suicide rates in our generation. Who wouldn't want to live in a celestial, several kilometre wide mansion
Jack Hughes
Sounds like the kind of place where pimps, drug dealers and thieves tend to thrive.
Gavin Allen
>a celestial, several kilometre wide mansion
>government planned, built and administered mandatory occupancy permanent residence
we already know what it looks like
Brody Harris
Population Control
Why do you think every building is surrounded by a street?
They need access to every part of the building so that they can kill you easily.
I hate to reference rick and morty, but that episode where rick makes an entire universe just to power his car is exactly what a city is. Cities are just there to generate cash. You're a battery for someone to make money.
Angel Ortiz
I had something in mind like open roofs, rooms as big as buildingd and INDOOR ROADS AND INDOOR RAILWAYS.
You guys aren't creative enough. How boring
Henry Johnson
That sounds like literal hell.
Angel Foster
They don't feel like it
Carson Sanders
I’m a bigger fan of dense, urban environments than most Any Forumstards and not even I like the sound of that at all lol
Caleb Roberts
9/11
Liam Murphy
Sounds like a logistical nightmare. It's a lot easier to demolish and rebuild a small building if something needs to change or if a building is beyond repair than it is to excise and carefully remodel a part of a megastructure.
Colton Young
They already tried this in China and it became a nightmarish hellhole in no time.
>Kowloon Walled City was an ungoverned and densely populated de jure Chinese enclave within the boundaries of Kowloon City, British Hong Kong. Originally a Chinese military fort, the walled city became an enclave after the New Territories were leased to the United Kingdom by China in 1898. Its population increased dramatically following the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. By 1990, the walled city contained 50,000 residents[1] within its 2.6-hectare (6.4-acre) borders. From the 1950s to the 1970s, it was controlled by local triads and had high rates of prostitution, gambling, and drug abuse.
Ryan Smith
>it was controlled by local triads and had high rates of prostitution, gambling, and drug abuse.
A libertarian's wet dream.
Ian Moore
what makes a city
is a critical mass of ambitioned people coming together in one place
everybody doing their own stuff, but close to one another
so you can go from one world to another and another and...
all in a single day
if you want
the point is it's not planned
and not plannable
it emerges