• Nagarjuna [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • oregoncom [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • neo [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        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.

        • kristina [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          What you don't see is each of these residential units has a subway entrance within a 5-10 minute walk

          • neo [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            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.