This is a super dense neighborhood in Shenzhen that has a massive, CO2 spewing highway driven through the center of it. How are you supposed to cross the highway? Why is there a highway here? Why are we still building highways despite climate change?
Damn, this has really shattered my image of China as a country that never builds roads in the wrong places.
China also produces more automobiles than any other country. It's not surprising that the domestic market consumes so many.
The good thing is that because China is socialist/has a command economy, they can just change that.
They aren't building suburbs which is how you get permanent car problems, they're continuing to build densely. They are building hsr to replace long distance car travel and have been pivoting to electric cars for the last 5 years.
This documentary from 2016/2017 shows how their transportation sector is being operated
They've been atoning their sins ever since by building as many trains (good) as possible non stop
Sure, in rural areas, where you can't feasibly build a train to every house. Not in super dense cities, though. It's a great way to add pollution and misery to a city.
you can’t feasibly build a train to every house
:train-shining: FUCKIN BET :train-shining:
You may have heard of fiber to the home, but what about rail-to-the-home?
Yes in cities green spaces are great they are typically known as "parks". Try to access any of the green space in those cloverleafs.
When I mod c/chapotraphouse, I don't remove comments from any user who disagrees with me on my own post.
It's nice there's a buncha trees, but yuck. I'd like to seem some pedestrian bridges at least.
Real place in Shenzhen unfortunately. I get the feeling it was planned in the 80s or 90s, considering that Shenzhen was a village in the 70s.
That's just a regular golf course, and public golf courses are essentially just big parks. The highways are still disappointing, though.
:bugs-no: golf bad, actual parks have trees and you don't have to water every square inch
Look at that picture; there are tons of trees there. The grass coverage is comparable to (or less than) that of a soccer complex.
Go to a public golf course on a nice Saturday. See how many people are there and how many of them are rich twats.
It's not a question of maximizing exercise potential per square foot, anyway. You don't want to be wasteful, but recreation does not need to be as economical as possible.
the sportfield in bottom left of the shenzhen pic is clearly a bit smaller-->golf course bigger, but i've seen larger sportfield complexes in real life so i'll accept the premise they're comparable : a) way more users are on team sports pitches at a time b) they should also be culled and more efficiently organized even if they're more socially justifiable
It's a private golf course unfortunately, but it got handed back to the government! http://www.szdaily.com/content/2018-08/03/content_21056583.htm
