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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.

I honestly think commieblocks don't look that bad.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For a supposedly "socialist" government, they sure are doing quite a lot regulating food, by "a lot" I mean jack shit.

I'm reading "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future", which I think is a great book, and one of its themes, that probably seems strange to Americans, is that China is more capitalist than the United States right now.

For instance, from what I read, the CCP is extremely reluctant to provide any kind of social welfare, in the belief welfare will make its citizens lazy, and the little that exists is not only incredibly corrupt but requires a degrading means testing process that even the worst American conservative would think goes too far.

But I've never lived in China so you may know better about that.

Problem is that mailrooms are useless for food delivery drivers.

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.

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.