• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Such buildings allow for great efficiency (it probably has its own stop on some kind of rail transit and still a reasonable cost of living) and that includes pizza delivery. Imagine delivering multiple orders a minute. The salary (and tips, even outside the US) would be great. They will probably even allow you to call the elevator with an app before you walk to it for extra speed.

  • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online
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    2 days ago

    These types of apartments interest me a lot, they become cities in one of themselves, a livable Kowloon

    Malls, gyms, restaurants all in the apartment because of how high the density is

  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I have in-laws living in China, and honestly - it’s a lot easier to navigate those sorts of high rises than you might think.

    Most residential buildings I’ve visited have lots of dedicated lifts, so only 2 apartments per floor share one lift. So you would only need to provide something like: Tower 37, Floor 19, Apartment 2.

    The Chinese love their delivery apps, too - their drivers (technically scooter riders) are very used to this.

    Now the city of Chongqing is a whole seperate matter, that place is an M. C. Escher drawing in real life!

    • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      how can people stay sane if the numbers go up in a predictable fashion? My American brain cannot comprehend the horrors associated with repeating patterns in housing style and numbering.

      • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        The American brain should be perfectly adapted to this sort of scenario! Just think it like one of those suburban cookie-cutter HOA developments, but vertical!

        As for counting with multiple numbers, y’all love to do that already! feet & inches, pounds & ounces etc.

      • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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        2 days ago

        North America, and Americans in particular, love to claim everything big. Big restaurants, big malls, big cars, big highways, big buildings, big country.

        Except efficiency is somehow forgotten. So you get 12 lane highways that are constantly clogged with traffic. 100 floor office buildings that have lineups at the elevator between 8-9 and 17-1730. Strip malls that you have to get to by car even if you live next door. And transit that gets you nowhere.

  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    We’ve heard about car brain, this is its cousin, detached house brain.

    Tall, wide, building, scary!! OoooOoOooOoOoh

    • Fades@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      A bit defensive there…. It’s quite literally a harmless meme

      Also, how does this have anything to do with house brain? Most hotels and apartment buildings don’t even come close to the sizes of some of these massive ones in China.

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      I mean it’s absolutely nuts how many people this building holds. I’m guessing that the majority of towns across the majority of the US land area have populations smaller than this one building. Probably likewise throughout most of Europe. The population density of this building is crazy. 115/km^2 (apparently the building is 260km^2)

      • superkret@feddit.org
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        2 days ago

        Your math is wrong. 260km^2 would mean 10 miles long and 10 miles wide.
        Unless you count floor space, but that’s not how population density is measured.

        And even then, 115/km^2 means every person would have 2 football fields of space.

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Any apartment building that size should have a couple floors of retail, especially food - they would make a fortune. If I lived there I would illegally sell teriyaki or something out of my apartment. Better still, run it like a street drug business - pay cookd and delivery people, and have distributors in between - they alone know where the kitchens are.