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From http://www.sidewalkinc.com/ : "By 2050, the population in cities will double" Is the best solution a frontal attack? Or could it be moving away from existing cities? Could one design a new city from scratch?
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Hasn't this already been invented? With the problem being that most westerners don't like the solution because it looks unfamiliar: * You install a squat toilet * It's cleaned by flooding the entire toilet area with water, which once turned off all washes down into the toilet * No toilet paper, you clean yourself with water
The biggest problem is not even that it looks unfamiliar, but that the majority of “westerners” have insufficient ankle flexibility to squat, due to a lifetime of sitting in chairs and no experience squatting. You might be able to build a squat toilet where the feet rested on a ramp (i.e. raised at the heel side), though I suspect most Americans would still refuse to use it.
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The biggest culture shock of visiting the UK was paying to use toilets. Do you want people pissing against walls? Because that's how you get people pissing against walls.
I think that’s a London thing rather than a UK thing.
The toilets in my hometown (Warwick) were closed. There used to be some on the castle walls at the top of Smith Street (near the East Gate) but they were closed. Also I think the public toilets in the main square (by the Rose and Crown?? where Woolworths used to be) are shut too.
And I don't even know of any public toilets in the town I am living in now (perhaps because I always just go home)
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That also has been my experience. I've moved three times in five years and every time it's been because I heard about what a team was doing and wanted to join them.
Dude, we're both in 2HS! I'm in the "UI Box" (Material).
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Paris has over 400 of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanisette They're free to use, not drug dealer proof, and close at night. I'd say they work well, but they're rather ugly.
The biggest culture shock of visiting the UK was paying to use toilets. Do you want people pissing against walls? Because that's how you get people pissing against walls.
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I doubt I'm in the minority here when I say I wouldn't move to a 'specialized and remote' community inhabited by people who are all affiliated with the same company. I don't live to work, and I don't want to be surrounded solely by people who are affiliated with the company I work for. While one of the reasons I live in Manhattan is because the job market is very good, I also enjoy it precisely because there is diver…
> I wouldn't move to a 'specialized and remote' community inhabited by people who are all affiliated with the same company. Re-read the sentence again. > By altering their way of working they could support remote working, creating clusters of specialized work forces and communities online rather than in a narrow physical location. The concept is that if you encourage remote working via online workplaces, you can solv…
But then again some of us really don't like to work all alone in our house, in the middle of nowhere. If I'm spending 8 hours per day working for my employer I might as well socialize while doing that, not living life like a hermit.
Someone needs to develop a public toilet that's self-cleaning but doesn't cost more than some houses. The problem is making it homeless and drug dealer proof. SF has had major problems with their self-cleaning toilets.[1] Portland succeeded, but theirs is armored to contain a velociraptor and provides limited privacy.[2] [1] http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/occupied-san-francisco-... [2] http://www.citylab.com/de…
Paris has over 400 of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanisette They're free to use, not drug dealer proof, and close at night. I'd say they work well, but they're rather ugly.
From their homepage: "By 2050, the population in cities will double, intensifying existing socioeconomic, public health and environmental problems." Yes. People move into a few big cities because companies companies like Google congregate there, ultimately creating problems such as skyrocketing rents, congestion, declining real living standards, homelessness. Google holds an obvious solution in its hand. By altering…
Unless you find a cost-efficient way to decentralize all of this, people will be attracted to each other.
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The biggest culture shock of visiting the UK was paying to use toilets. Do you want people pissing against walls? Because that's how you get people pissing against walls.
I think that’s a London thing rather than a UK thing.
From their homepage: "By 2050, the population in cities will double, intensifying existing socioeconomic, public health and environmental problems." Yes. People move into a few big cities because companies companies like Google congregate there, ultimately creating problems such as skyrocketing rents, congestion, declining real living standards, homelessness. Google holds an obvious solution in its hand. By altering…
Actually in big cities like New York, Google's office doesn't make a dent - most Googlers can just take the subway. The Mountain View office is only 4 times bigger, but because Mountain View wants to be a suburb and not a city, it now enjoys gridlocked roads every day.