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No you don’t understand, utilitarian city planning is stupid. We follow american values like ‘cars’ and ‘redlining’
Sorry sweaty unless half of the footprint of your city is parking lots it’s 1849 authoritarianism
Ban cars.
is that houston
Houston and Chongqing (but one of those photos looks ai generated lol)
Chongqing is only like 25 years old. Before that it was an industry zone in the Sichuan province. Lol
It is actually a crown jewel of china’s growth and focus on livability in their cities.
I didn’t make the meme, I thought Chongqing was a weird choice when there are older or lower tier cities which still make Houston look like absolute shit and are far lesser known. But I’m a simple poster, I see train, I post train
Can’t out drip Deng’s cities.
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Don’t mind me, just picking my cherries.
lol, as if all of amerika isnt this suburban sprawl hell. China has functioning megacities, get over it
please, point me to America’s functioning high speed railway system. I’ll wait
I’ve never gone anywhere in the US that wasn’t a depressing traffic jam or vast nowhere. I’ve never been to China, but I know for a fact that they at least plan their cities instead of allowing them to become Houston.
mods can we PLEASE get a lemmy emoji
Find something good then suggest it on c/emojis
no I want to be babied
Typical Hong Kong apartment
The same hong kong owned by western capitalist for 70 years right?
If it’s a problem caused by Western capitalism, why hasn’t China fixed it in the over 25 years?
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They doubled the average size of new apartments by outlawing the appalling tiny units that the British establishment encouraged and by engaging in actual planning concerning land use, another thing the British colonial era ignored.
Now it’s about 50-90 sqm for new apartments which is the same as other high density cities like Barcelona. New York for example is 50-70 sqm.
They estimate a further gain of 10-20% in floor area per person by 2030.
Thanks China!
Your dumb ass should start questioning your assumptions because they’re wrong.
hey comrade, since you seem knowledgeable on the topic, do you know if there are any plans to further develop the new territories? I was in HK and I saw how much empty space and large single homes were there and I was astonished with the lack of development, not sure if there’s a historical reason for that.
I’m not an expert at all but I know the plan is to keep most of HK as undeveloped woodland.
It’s one of the things that surprises visitors, despite being one of the most densely populated places on earth, 2/3rds of HK is a nature preserve and they plan to keep it that way.
Partly this is because nature is good and the city treasures the green spaces. Which is why you see those funny high rises with a square missing in the center, it’s not actually feng shui it’s because approval often requires that you don’t block the sun and views of the mountains.
But it’s also in part because the mountainous parts are not very suitable for building and they’re prone to mudslides so building up on them would be a bad idea.
It’s actually cheaper and easier to “reclaim” land from the sea which is where most new land comes from, but really it’s increasing density and building up that creates most new housing.
Until 1947 colonial Hong Kong had a rule stating that you could not live on the land overlooking Hong Kong unless you were an expat (rich colonial capitalists).
This caused all elevated land in Hong Kong to become high-value. Today it’s all unbelievably expensive land. And only owned by millionaires and billionaires.
The process for purchasing land in HK is also a tender process, the government announces land sales and then takes bids. Until 2018 all of these bids would go into a box and then the government selects the highest bid from the box. This upholds the “free market” philosophy of the region, which they’re not allowed to change until the end of the agreement made in 1997 with Britain. In 2018 they managed to adjust it so that there was transparency on the bid amounts, so that bidders now don’t go in blind and overbid in order to get the land, its intention is to stop massive price balloons caused by the black box that the process used to be but you and I both know it won’t really solve the issue. The issue is the bidding process in its entirety of course, nobody can develop land this expensive and sell/rent property on that land to recuperate the cost of the land purchase without the properties that are built being absurdly expensive themselves.
