[bipop5000]

This is what happens when urban planning goes wrong. In asian cities where most office buildings are zoned along with residential buildings and other types of buildings (shops, service providers etc) the office commercial property would just get converted to another type of commercial and possibly residential property and life moves on. An extreme example of this would be to have residential building type be almost identical to a commercial type which I have seen plenty of in south Asia. The problem in US is that when offices close down the entire city dies. The economic activity halves, it feels empty, creepy and unsafe. A lot of cities in the US exist to cater to the 9-5 office workers that relapse back to suburbs far from the city for anything other than work and some entertainment.

[somsak2]

it would be great if it were as simple as re zoning. unfortunately it's not so easy. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/11/upshot/office...

[jdjdjdhhd]

> An extreme example of this would be to have residential building type be almost identical to a commercial type which I have seen plenty of in south Asia.

I have seen this a lot too in the US... Usually a home gets converted to a business