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High rises are the closest thing we have to arcologies. Not saying that they’re close to arcologies, just that they’re the closest.
by klodolph 6y ago
High rises are the closest thing we have to arcologies.
Not saying that they’re close to arcologies, just that they’re the closest.
- PaulHoule 6y agoNah. The elevator stack in high rise buildings is predicated on almost all the trips terminating at the entrance. That is is why the NYT building has the cafeteria on the 2nd floor. Thus a highrise is mostly a place where you live and leave or work and leave. If it had the kind of N*(N-1) scaling of interactions a city had there would be no room for apartments and offices between the shafts.
- xkeysc0re 6y agoI know this is the most pedantic of all comments but unless something has changed in the last few weeks, the cafeteria is on the 14th of the building. I believe 2 is bottom floor of the newsroom, which is an open mezzanine of 3 floors. Having said that, the elevators at the NYT are a nightmare with exceptionally long wait times and very little throughput.