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Yeah, that's a fair point! Chicago is mostly filled in flat swampland. Maybe floating settlements in the Bay? If Japan can build a floating airport (Narita), c

Yeah, that's a fair point! Chicago is mostly filled in flat swampland. Maybe floating settlements in the Bay? If Japan can build a floating airport (Narita), can't we build a floating apartment or two?

bcrosby95 3y ago
Environmentalists would go nuts. And I don't blame them, considering the drawn up plan to turn the bay into a river from long ago. Once you fuck an environment, it's very time consuming and expensive to unfuck it. IIRC there's also a strict 1-for-1 policy: for every foot of land you take from the bay, you have to reclaim a foot of land for the bay elsewhere. Despite this, people will still fight it.
- solardev 3y ago
  I was thinking something literally floating, as opposed to an infilled island. Like a carrier or cargo ship sized apartment complex. Multi family houseboat :)
callalex 3y ago
Huge portions of San Francisco are already man-made infill.
tivert 3y ago
> Maybe floating settlements in the Bay? If Japan can build a floating airport (Narita), can't we build a floating apartment or two? I think you mean Haneda airport; and it's not floating, it's built on landfill (apparently the literal garbage kind): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haneda_Airport#Domestic_era_(1978%E2%80%932010) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haneda_Airport#Domestic_era_(1...: > The Transport Ministry released an expansion plan for Haneda in 1983 under which it would be expanded onto new landfill in Tokyo Bay with the aim of increasing capacity, reducing noise and making use of the large amount of garbage generated by Tokyo. In July 1988, a new 3,000-metre (9,800 ft) runway opened on the landfill. In September 1993, the old airport terminal was replaced by a new West Passenger Terminal, nicknamed "Big Bird", which was built farther out on the landfill. New C (parallel) and B (cross) runways were completed in March 1997 and March 2000 respectively.[12] > ....The fourth runway (05/23), which is called D Runway,[33] was also completed in 2010, having been constructed via land reclamation to the south of the existing airfield.
- solardev 3y ago
  Oops! Good catch. I was actually thinking of Kansai (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansai_International_Airport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansai_International_Airport), which like Haneda is an artificial island, not a floating airport. I misremembered. Thanks for the correction!

bcrosby95 3y ago

Environmentalists would go nuts. And I don't blame them, considering the drawn up plan to turn the bay into a river from long ago. Once you fuck an environment, it's very time consuming and expensive to unfuck it. IIRC there's also a strict 1-for-1 policy: for every foot of land you take from the bay, you have to reclaim a foot of land for the bay elsewhere. Despite this, people will still fight it.

solardev 3y ago
I was thinking something literally floating, as opposed to an infilled island. Like a carrier or cargo ship sized apartment complex. Multi family houseboat :)

callalex 3y ago

Huge portions of San Francisco are already man-made infill.

tivert 3y ago

> Maybe floating settlements in the Bay? If Japan can build a floating airport (Narita), can't we build a floating apartment or two? I think you mean Haneda airport; and it's not floating, it's built on landfill (apparently the literal garbage kind): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haneda_Airport#Domestic_era_(1978%E2%80%932010) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haneda_Airport#Domestic_era_(1...: > The Transport Ministry released an expansion plan for Haneda in 1983 under which it would be expanded onto new landfill in Tokyo Bay with the aim of increasing capacity, reducing noise and making use of the large amount of garbage generated by Tokyo. In July 1988, a new 3,000-metre (9,800 ft) runway opened on the landfill. In September 1993, the old airport terminal was replaced by a new West Passenger Terminal, nicknamed "Big Bird", which was built farther out on the landfill. New C (parallel) and B (cross) runways were completed in March 1997 and March 2000 respectively.[12] > ....The fourth runway (05/23), which is called D Runway,[33] was also completed in 2010, having been constructed via land reclamation to the south of the existing airfield.

solardev 3y ago
Oops! Good catch. I was actually thinking of Kansai (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansai_International_Airport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansai_International_Airport), which like Haneda is an artificial island, not a floating airport. I misremembered. Thanks for the correction!