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>Then why do it in the middle of the desert? Because land in the desert is cheap. > They're called "city". Or "town". It's where people "live" and have fun, "
by Turing_Machine 9y ago
>Then why do it in the middle of the desert?
Because land in the desert is cheap.
> They're called "city". Or "town". It's where people "live" and have fun, "with some acceptable margin".
Some people hate "cities" and don't think being forced to be in one is "living" or any kind of "fun".
- matt4077 9y agoI really want to meet this intersection of people that "hate cities", yet hear about a Bill Gates venture in the Arizona desert with "80,000 residential units" and think: "Yep, that's me!" Or, more broadly, my point to OP was: assuming we have perfect telecommuting and the era of the city is coming to an end: Why build a city??
- yazr 9y agoI am not taking sides here. But maybe a university-campus-size city is beneficial for human interaction and symbiosis. And a 1M people metropolis with an abused under-class , squeezed middle-class and entrench NIMBY land owners is not ?!
- mathgeek 9y agoThat intersection may be the same people who are attracted to anything new that promises something different from what we currently do.
- erikpukinskis 9y agoBecause existing cities are poorly designed and expensive to refurbish.
- Turing_Machine 9y agoThe proposed Gates development has about 1/3 acre per residential unit. That's a lot closer to "suburb" than the "cities" you were talking about.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoMany people want to be near other people, restaurants, stores, etc. If I could live anywhere I want, I wouldn't live in cramped, overpriced housing clustered around major employers, but I wouldn't live in the wilderness either.