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We need to start building tiny soviet style apartments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQgaCwrQQy8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQgaCwrQQy8 Add to that som
by Pet_Ant 6y ago
We need to start building tiny soviet style apartments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQgaCwrQQy8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQgaCwrQQy8
Add to that some "coffin" motels. Once people have a place to sleep near a place they can work they can start moving upwards.
My mom grew up in one, and I stayed with my grandma in one every time I visited. Sure, I slept on the kitchen floor, but it's not that bad.
- sesuximo 6y agoOr we could stop putting everyone’s jobs in the same 10 towns and use a bit more space
- Pet_Ant 6y agoWhen Obama asked Steve Jobs about those manufacturing jobs coming back to the US Jobs said it ain't gonna happen. The benefits of centralizing and critical mass are just too important. Being able to lunch with people and get into the same space to innovate, to read body language. It's to big of an advantage. Just like independent rural homestead living collapsed into small town and cities, small towns are cities are collapsing into metropolises. It is inevitable. Geographic centralisation gives you so much more efficiency it's undeniable. > and use a bit more space Have you looked at a satellite map of the US? So little of it remains natural. The last thing we need is even more sprawl.
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- sesuximo 6y agoPerhaps we could use more cities instead of more suburbs.
- dredmorbius 6y agoThere's ample unused built space, infill opportunity, or brownfields development (assuming the brown isn't overly toxic, and much is).
- kube-system 6y agoThat's about the same size as my first apartment here in the US. It looks like a pretty normal studio apartment. There's plenty of apartments like that in major US cities.