I lived in China for four years teaching English. The last city I lived in was Guangzhou in a residential area similar to this. I really miss it to be honest. The level of convenience was unlike anywehere else (countrywise) that I have ever lived. Whatever you need/want at any time of day or night is right there. And it always felt extremely safe.
Wow look at this paid SEE SEE PEE shill in the comments.
Love how all the comments are calling it scifi and cyberpunk. No, the West just lives in a mudpunk suburban dystopia
This is what we'll end up with if we let the market yimbys win
Like, I get that this is so much better than like, Malaysia, but there's no trees, it's an inhuman scale, the uniform height of buildings is off-putting.
Like in terms of communist urbanism, Vietnam pre-imf reforms is much more compelling.
Everyone of those storefronts is at a more human scale than a walmart is. You'd think a leftist instance of all places would be the only place where I don't have to see a bunch of anglos frothing at the mouth after seeing a couple tall buildings.
The thing that sucks the most in the video that I see so far 7 mins in is the same thing that sucks the most anywhere: car-centric urban planning.
What you don't see is each of these residential units has a subway entrance within a 5-10 minute walk
I live on a 2nd floor apartment with adjacent roadside parking and and near a moderate traffic street. I am so fucking sick of hearing cars. Cars to wake me up at night. Cars to wake me up in the morning. Cars to ruin the enjoyment of opening window on a fair weather day. So if I see residential windows above street traffic I have automatic revulsion, all else equal.
with the size of those roads and the pedestrian bridges it reminds me of Las Vegas but in a bad way :(
Edit: nice t osee that it's still more culturally vibrant than American cities tho, with those dance classes.
Not gonna watch this for an hour, but watched for 2 mins and saw 0 homelessness
ive been to guiyang a couple of times but never visited this place. the rest of the city is pretty different from this, a very laid back and moderately sizes capital with small curving roads and lots of wide walkable alleys with old comfortable residential areas and lots of street activity (street food, groceries...).
some roads are strangely car centric though with no street level crossings for perestrians, only overpasses or underpasses.
There are not enough trees. Otherwise seems alright, but I've lived in London and Manchester.
replace the streets with parks and add more spaces to sit without paying something and we might have something here
They're working on it. China is actively trying to be less car dependent, their expansive HSR and regional rail expansions are doing just that. Once car traffic is reduced sufficiently they can start reclaiming the space dedicated to car roads for pedestrian areas and greenspace.
