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by codedokode 3102 days ago
it is very uncomfortable to stand near a 30-floor building looking up. Also, people in the building will have troubles with parking all of their cars. By the way this [1] is what those buldings look like.

[1] https://varlamov.me/2016/china_ray/09.jpg

2 comments

Well we should certainly not make them with concrete faces. This isn’t Soviet Russia, so there’s not much danger in that.

Take a look down any street in the Financial District. What we want is that, just more of it over a larger surface area.

It’s not optimizing for “comfort in looking up”. Also, cars are only a necessity when you can’t walk everywhere. San Francisco is already a city where the majority don’t own a car. Making it more dense won’t undo that.