Buildings shoule be underground in many places. Cooling air would be a lot cheaper if there weren't massive windows, and it opens more space for plants & things.
This especially true of very hot places, like Phoenix, AZ, which has one of the worst downtowns there is, because all of the concrete and glass makes it ridiculously hot. The only issue is the top soil is a hard layer.
Why bother razing it when it's going to become completely uninhabitable and abandoned in the next decade anyway? Seems like too much work for something that's going to happen inevitably in a short time anyway
it fucking enrages me. i've visited that city several times over the past few years in the dead of the summer, and it's unreal to me that a city like that should even exist. what's worse is that they just have suburbs sprawling out the ground seemingly every few years. an already unsustainable city is just becoming even more stretched
It's the modern day Tower of Babel, a giant monument of man's arrogance. And like the Tower of Babel, it's only a matter of a few years before the gods strike that bitch down and puts humanity in its place
Meh, at least convert it to growing land. Like sure water needs to be shipped from the Colorado River, but you can grow food basically all year around.
Buildings shoule be underground in many places. Cooling air would be a lot cheaper if there weren't massive windows, and it opens more space for plants & things.
This especially true of very hot places, like Phoenix, AZ, which has one of the worst downtowns there is, because all of the concrete and glass makes it ridiculously hot. The only issue is the top soil is a hard layer.
Even in fucking London glass skyscrapers set things on fire with all the concentrated reflection
no, nothing should be fucking built in Phoenix AZ. That whole city needs to be fucking razed to the ground
Why bother razing it when it's going to become completely uninhabitable and abandoned in the next decade anyway? Seems like too much work for something that's going to happen inevitably in a short time anyway
it fucking enrages me. i've visited that city several times over the past few years in the dead of the summer, and it's unreal to me that a city like that should even exist. what's worse is that they just have suburbs sprawling out the ground seemingly every few years. an already unsustainable city is just becoming even more stretched
It's the modern day Tower of Babel, a giant monument of man's arrogance. And like the Tower of Babel, it's only a matter of a few years before the gods strike that bitch down and puts humanity in its place
Meh, at least convert it to growing land. Like sure water needs to be shipped from the Colorado River, but you can grow food basically all year around.
I know you're saying many and not all places, but I'm curious how viable that would be in places dependent on groundwater.
If a fire breaks out so many more people would die