Well, few unpopular thoughts: - cities was NEEDED despite their issues for many reasons, reasons that slowly almost disappear while the society evolve, especia

Well, few unpopular thoughts: - cities was NEEDED despite their issues for many reasons, reasons that slowly almost disappear while the society evolve, especially in the modern time with '80s logistics revolutions that nullify the benefit of having productions, workforce and customers in a tight area and WFH that nullify the need of offices, so the need to be near enough to reach the office we have almost exhausted remaining reasons of existence for large, dense cities; - large dense cities can't evolve, simply because it's too complex and costly doing ANYTHING compared to do the same in a far less dense area. Long story short my unpopular view of modern cities is a kind of modern open prisons where inmates are just farm animals to be used to operate services they consume to live without owning them and without the option to earn enough to elevate their condition. ALL modern development I see so far goes in this direction. Personally I do not like being a farm animal and I do not like having no choices about not only my own personal future but also the future of my descendants after me, meaning the ability not only to live my life producing eventual new life, but also the ability to give my newly produced life resources and knowledge to go past me based with what I did not only what the society offer at a certain point in time. A high rise not designed to avoid Sun exposure in summer, grabbing as much as needed in winter can't be adopted much, we can't really create exterior structures to shadow the "high Sun" in summer and allow deep penetration of "low winter Sun" and that's MUCH of energy issues of buildings in most inhabited latitudes. Similarly we can't do much to make "heat chimney" to evacuate locally produced heat (from heat pumps, fridges, anything) toward the atmosphere to keep as cool as possible at ground level. Something can be done, but with less effect and higher costs than simply giving up MOST dense cities to implement the new deal in new areas where there is also a bit less exposure to floods, fires etc etc etc.