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I didn't know some countries could still play Sim City. A tunisian friend was talking to me about the same thing. A new coastal city, big investments coming in,
by mitchi 12y ago
I didn't know some countries could still play Sim City. A tunisian friend was talking to me about the same thing. A new coastal city, big investments coming in, we make this city a center for investments, arts, technology, finance.
Well... Good luck. It's more likely to end up empty, like a big mall or expensive appartments no one can afford.
- Apocryphon 12y agoYou'd expect China or the booming Gulf States to do something like this. Irrational exuberance.
- stefantalpalaru 12y agoThey do: http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-ghost-cities-in-2014-2014-6?IR=T http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-ghost-cities-in-2014-2...
- 1timeUse 12y agoI apologize for being critical, but that piece is extremely ignorant of what China is actually aiming to do. Were the city builds part of economic stimulus? Yes, of course. However China also has a goal to move 250-350 mm citizens into urban living by 2025. Here's a 2009 report on the subject: http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/urbanization/preparing_for_urban_billion_in_china http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/urbanization/preparing_for_... Without being rude, my link is substantially more weighty / less noisy than yours.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoThere are definitely plans to move a lot of government functions out of Beijing into nearby Hebei cities. But the problem is that Beijing is becoming too congested and polluted (the surrounding cities in Hebei are just as bad, so I'm not sure if this will actually work).
- TeMPOraL 12y ago> I didn't know some countries could still play Sim City. I wish more countries would - at least cities wouldn't be "designed" by bunch of developers fighting against each other for cash, building tons of useless buildings, destroying parks and public spaces. Cities I know could use some order and effective design.
- agumonkey 12y agoI was a bit resentful of the ideas behind urban design and architecture, then two weeks ago I found this on imgur (http://imgur.com/gallery/4FuyX/comment/373343373 http://imgur.com/gallery/4FuyX/comment/373343373): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AYE3w5TWHs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AYE3w5TWHs (skip to the second half) It seems a creative, yet more balanced environmentally and humanly, way to conceive buildings (and in the large, cities).
- agumonkey 12y agoSometimes big is all needs to be. People will come for novelty. It may suck energy from surrounding places, drying them, becoming the new center.