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Ok. 400 million people globally want to live in Manhattan. How do you solve that?

dathos 4y ago
Do you think that's because Manhattan is such a great place to live or because people globally would love a life that's not a life of poverty?
black_13 4y ago
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imtringued 4y ago
Build more Manhattans.
- gruez 4y ago
  1. That wasn't the original claim, which was "There should be enough housing for everyone that wants to live in a given area". People don't want to live in Manhattan 2, they want to live in Manhattan. 2. "Build more Manhattans" is easier said than done. Even petro-states with astronomical amount of money to splash around have a hard time building a "Manhattan". Dubai might be very shiny and the financial capital of the middle east, but it's no Manhattan.
  - mjevans 4y ago
    Also, "claim" is too strong. This is the __aspirational__ sort of should. "We SHOULD all be kind to each other."
ben_w 4y ago
Is that a hypothetical or your actual belief?
mjevans 4y ago
I don't know Manhattan very well, only what I've seen on TV and in Movies. Back of napkin answer: Build bigger buildings, lots of them. All of those 'quaint' places with 2-6 story buildings? 50-60+ story sky-scrapers. However that's probably also the answer you assumed. Yes that would change the 'character' of a place, because the only way of keeping that the same is to keep the number and type of people in a place the same. How could someone preserve an idea that directly contradicts a reality? No, there would need to be a new idea that supports the desired conditions. Hopefully a good idea that is well executed. As another commenter said, 'more ''Manhattans''' is another way, try to replicate the sort of feel / idea at existing scale or larger in other locations. My own comment was about the technical and physical goals a society should strive for, which are within reach, should we the people have the will to reach for them.

Do you think that's because Manhattan is such a great place to live or because people globally would love a life that's not a life of poverty?

black_13 4y ago

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imtringued 4y ago

Build more Manhattans.

gruez 4y ago
1. That wasn't the original claim, which was "There should be enough housing for everyone that wants to live in a given area". People don't want to live in Manhattan 2, they want to live in Manhattan. 2. "Build more Manhattans" is easier said than done. Even petro-states with astronomical amount of money to splash around have a hard time building a "Manhattan". Dubai might be very shiny and the financial capital of the middle east, but it's no Manhattan.
- mjevans 4y ago
  Also, "claim" is too strong. This is the __aspirational__ sort of should. "We SHOULD all be kind to each other."

ben_w 4y ago

Is that a hypothetical or your actual belief?

mjevans 4y ago

I don't know Manhattan very well, only what I've seen on TV and in Movies. Back of napkin answer: Build bigger buildings, lots of them. All of those 'quaint' places with 2-6 story buildings? 50-60+ story sky-scrapers. However that's probably also the answer you assumed. Yes that would change the 'character' of a place, because the only way of keeping that the same is to keep the number and type of people in a place the same. How could someone preserve an idea that directly contradicts a reality? No, there would need to be a new idea that supports the desired conditions. Hopefully a good idea that is well executed. As another commenter said, 'more ''Manhattans''' is another way, try to replicate the sort of feel / idea at existing scale or larger in other locations. My own comment was about the technical and physical goals a society should strive for, which are within reach, should we the people have the will to reach for them.