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Ghost cities are a good example of how simply building housing is not a perfect solution. If the housing is somewhere where people don't want to be then it is w
by throwaway4aday 3y ago
Ghost cities are a good example of how simply building housing is not a perfect solution. If the housing is somewhere where people don't want to be then it is worthless and also useless since no one can make use of it if they can't make a living there.
- hakfoo 3y agoThe Ghost City concept is actually a great one, but it has the "you opened the bedroom door while someone is dressing" visuals problem. If you can plan and work on a longer term, you can do things like staging multiple phases of development. They can build the subway station that opens up into a dismal swamp today, and watch the YouTubers laugh. But in 3 years the swamp is scheduled to be paved, in 6 years there will be 10,000 housing units in walking radius, and in 10 years, the Work Factory will have opened nearby and you have a sprawling community of 60,000 people surrounding a subway station that would be logistically difficult and expensive if you tried to build it in after the fact.