> This is Treasure Hill–a prototype for what one architect believes is the future of sustainable urban living. Title should be "One architect's idea of the \"city of the future\" looks like a bunker"
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The city of the future looks like a former military bunker in Taipei (2016)
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#12The future city is ugly and built with and upon the scraps left by our military largesse. Sounds about right.
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#13Re: The city of the future looks like a former military bunker in Taipei (2016)
#14> This is Treasure Hill–a prototype for what one architect believes is the future of sustainable urban living. Title should be "One architect's idea of the \"city of the future\" looks like a bunker"
I'd go even further and say the heresy that "urban living" is not the future, so making it sustainable is like scaling horse-riding to 10 billion riders.
You can say that, but without the cities overpaying their share of support, suburbs simply cannot exist.
If we required suburbs to support themselves economically, the suburbs would vanish.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd go even further and say the heresy that "urban living" is not the future, so making it sustainable is like scaling horse-riding to 10 billion riders.
What do you think is the alternative? More sprawl? All global billions living in idyllic farms? On what land?
I think it will be small multi-generational houses. Outside of a few overpopulated cities, most of the land, even in NY, is farmlands or just undeveloped. Living in hives isn't really in human nature.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you think is the alternative? More sprawl? All global billions living in idyllic farms? On what land?
I think it will be small multi-generational houses. Outside of a few overpopulated cities, most of the land, even in NY, is farmlands or just undeveloped. Living in hives isn't really in human nature.
More than half of the global human population (and growing) lives in urban areas, so _by definition_ it is human nature. The artificial restrictions artificially limiting the number of new apartment blocks, causing lack of affordable housing is what's forcing younger people to move back in with their parents increasing the number of multi-generational houses. It's pretty hard for me to see this as an unalloyed good that should be the future of living.
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#17> This is Treasure Hill–a prototype for what one architect believes is the future of sustainable urban living. Title should be "One architect's idea of the \"city of the future\" looks like a bunker"
The bunker is weirdly positioned in the title of this piece, it seems highly incidental to the actual substance. The bunker figures in the history of Treasure Hill, but it doesn't seem relevant to its present state or what's ecological or forward-looking about it.
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#18Solarpunk brutalism
Abandoned town: :|
Abandoned town (overgrown): :O
Re: The city of the future looks like a former military bunker in Taipei (2016)
#19> Unfortunately, there was still a problem–the city couldn’t overlook the building codes. But Casagrande found a loophole: He declared that since the houses had been handmade, they were a form of art. “The city commissioned me to make a public artwork, and Treasure Hill is the artwork. That’s where [people] live now,” he said. “That’s how they rationalized it.” That ignores the purpose of the building codes even arti…
Good to see a Hacker is now being a bureaucrat reading books of city codes over Neuromancer. These are peoples homes, the danger is probably less than many US ghettos or homeless encampments, how about we start bulldozing those which are unsafe and ugly if people homes have no meaning. There's no reason you cant make communities not up to spec with current building codes safe. This is normal for historic buildings wh…
Surely there is middle ground here- I agree with the general sentiment though; the perfect need not be the enemy of the good.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you think is the alternative? More sprawl? All global billions living in idyllic farms? On what land?
I think it will be small multi-generational houses. Outside of a few overpopulated cities, most of the land, even in NY, is farmlands or just undeveloped. Living in hives isn't really in human nature.
So... suburbs? I guess like the 1950's vision of the future plus grandma?