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I 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"
by matt4077 9y ago
I 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.