Perhaps the most interesting part of the article:

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    As opposed to the suburban sprawl we have now? Every lawn fertilized, every driveway 2.5 cars? Or the shanty towns?

    It turns out building housing is as easy as building housing. I would absolutely live in one of these if they were correctly managed. A half a billion Chinese people can’t be all that wrong.

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      Can’t be wrong? I’m gonna have to point you to Kowloon. Kowloon was pretty wrong. They didn’t call it the city of darkness for nothing.

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        Using kwaloon walked city is disingenuous AF. Kowloon was a shanty town left to its own devices, governed neither by the British or the Chinese due to a quirk of geography and diplomacy. Kowloon (the walled city area now a park, not to be confused with the neighborhood) was never built to any sort of plan.

        At it height kwaloon had 40,000 people living in it. In hong Kong alone there’s now close to 10million, most of whom live in apartment buildings. It can work. It does work. Every day.

        I swear to God it’s like my countrymen saw a rap video shot in the projects and now think the crack epidemic was the fault of public housing.

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          Actually I saw dredd cause Karl urban is rad af. We don’t need more Peachtrees. We need to eradicate Airbnb and make the housing we already have accessible to the people that need it and barred from the people that hold property for profit.

          People need space in the same way that some people need religion. It’s not actually necessary until you consider comfort along with efficiency.

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            Go take a look on google maps. There’s parks, nature. You can have a connection with outside spaces and nature without living in a subdivision.

            Dreds a dope movie. Might be one of the best action films IMHO