Got nothing on Kowloon. That was a marvel. Scary, probably deadly, but a marvel nonetheless.
This is dumb. You can’t let delivery guys/gals up into the hallways unaccompaioned in an apartment building this size. You have to go down to the front door
If there is tofu dreg in the construction, the architect and builders are gonna charged with a genocide. (if building collapse, thousands die)
And this is not because American propaganda or whatever. My family is from mainland China and my mother told me about all those tofu-dreg stuff. To be very clear, this is not the people’s fault, its not individuals being “lazy”, its a systematic issue. There’s so much corruption and bribery.
Food safety is another one of the big issues. For a supposedly “socialist” government, they sure are doing quite a lot regulating food, by “a lot” I mean jack shit.
I’m suspecting if my older brother is being an asshole because he lived there like approximately 5 years longer there and suffered some food poisoning (like maybe lead) or something and totally has zero empathy. Parents are also shitty. I mean there has got to be lead or something.
(No I did not live in one of these mega buildings lol, mine was more like a 10 story building, no elevators, lackluster of safety barriers. I hate that place lol, so much bad memories of my abusive older brother.)
Food safety is another one of the big issues.
They cracked down on people cleaning cooking oil and reselling it as food oil again, they executed the people responsible for poisonous baby formula, they seem to do something when it becomes noisy.
I got mild food poisoning in China less frequently than in Korea or Vietnam.
I can’t compare to Japan, because while the food safety seems very good, its not because of regulation, restaurants there don’t even have regular inspections.
For a supposedly “socialist” government, they sure are doing quite a lot regulating food, by “a lot” I mean jack shit.
I’m reading “Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future”, which I think is a great book, and one of its themes, that probably seems strange to Americans, is that China is more capitalist than the United States right now.
For instance, from what I read, the CCP is extremely reluctant to provide any kind of social welfare, in the belief welfare will make its citizens lazy, and the little that exists is not only incredibly corrupt but requires a degrading means testing process that even the worst American conservative would think goes too far.
But I’ve never lived in China so you may know better about that.
that China is more capitalist than the United States right now
Exactly lol, this is what I’ve been saying.
CCP is extremely reluctant to provide any kind of social welfare, in the belief welfare will make its citizens lazy
That’s my parent’s view on welfare. These views carried over to the US too. Its why they see a headline about “illegal immigrants” to the US and they start blaming welfare and think that “illegal” immigrants are somehow getting welfare and they think its taking away resources from legal immigrants. Its why they think me having depression is “weakness”. My mother told me she hates autistic people because she thinks they are “dangerous”. Like people with disabilities get would disowned by a lot of parents. If you have any disabilities, you don’t get viewd as a person, but a 廢柴 (I’d say it’s equivalent to “useless eater”). Its so messed up.
fire hazard
“800 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one…”
Awesome OST intensifies
Think it’s composed by Hans, Goransson, Jackman, or Djawadi?
In reality buildings like this have a mailroom where packages are dropped.
Problem is that mailrooms are useless for food delivery drivers.
Correct, and the drop-off and pick-up is done through QR codes over WeChat, here is a (German) documentary about this very building showing the process:
Something weird and amazing about China is the changes in verticality. You can walk into a building off a plaza, take the elevator DOWN ten levels…and walk out onto a street.
You can do exactly the same in Wellington, New Zealand. There’s a bunch of buildings with street frontage on the Terrace and Lambton Quay, with something like ten floors of difference.
I remember watching some stuff about cities where it feels like you went out on street level but really you’re still XX floors up.
Odds are it was a video about Chongqing. It’s an engineering miracle that a city of that scale can even exist on such challenging terrain.
I don’t trust China after their tofu-dreg reputation. I’m sure this building is structurally sound but I just don’t trust living in it.
Imagine the parking required if this were in the states
probably half of Texas
I long for mixed used housing without an automobile parking requirement in an area with ubiquitous mass transit.
Certain areas of NYC is what you want. Expensive though. I lived a block from a 15 minute train ride to work at one point. Every type of food you could want within 15 minute walk. Bus up the block took you to Costco.
Maybe you could make part of the rent A. First floor car rental place. Mass transit for everyday stuff and maybe a thousand cars for immediate rental for people that need to do strange things. Include box trucks pickups, yada, yada.
The building would probably extend like eight football fields underground
Sorry mate, elevator is out of service because someone pulled the fire alarm
Neighbors noises final boss.
Bugs and smells too
The sewage pipe at the bottom must be ginormous
Sewage? …pipe?
If you can put a city in one building that beats driving in snow
I want to see dead malls turned into mini cities.
You can also just build trains
One single letter box.
That’s my entire town in one building
