- cross-posted to:
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- leftsthetics
- cross-posted to:
- left_urbanism@lemmy.ml
- leftsthetics
Despite being one of the poorest, this province is full of breathtaking nature wonders. In Guiyang city alone, there are lakes, waterfalls, caves, canyons, and mountains and over 500 parks. This video only shows a small corner of the city. People living here have easy access to nature more than most viewers can imagine. They have the best of two worlds!
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Urban planning doing it’s work, the part of peripheral downtown Toronto I drive through everyday actually doesn’t look like something from this century, I would be way happier working/living in this area
As a fellow Canadian, I’d say Canada stretches the definition of a city way too far. I’d say that only the downtowns of major Canadian cities can truly be considered cities. The endless sprawl of single family suburbs are not. They are villages at best.
That’s supposed to be poor?
I saw that video the other day. It’s surreal knowing that’s one of the poorest provinces in China, I mean, just look at it. I wish we had city cores that nice here. If that doesn’t prove the CPC is doing a good job, I don’t know what is.
Loving the use of stratified mix use high rises, where you have retail/commercial on the lower floors and residential on the upper floors. The thumbnail itself is a pretty good showcase of that and it’s probably the best way to structure a dense city for non car use, walkability, and to reduce choke points because you don’t have boundaries between well-defined residential and commercial districts where everyone goes one way in the morning and the other way in the evening (these are usually the sources of rush hour congestion). You want everywhere to be a balance of residential and commercial capacity, so the number of people commutting in every direction is about equal.
Honestly, I’m kind of surprised these buildings don’t have more of an office/commercial section for the number of residences they have. One can only assume there still are a lot of dedicated office buildings or commercial districts in that case that people have to commute in and out of. Still not ideal but way better than North American cities, and I imagine a city like this also has excellent public transportation. Maybe most people in the city work in heavy industry that can’t or wouldn’t integrate well into urban areas? It might also have been that at the time of building this, the need for housing was higher than the need for commercial space, so they prioritized housing.
Anyone have pictures of what the new developments in this city look like?
Is that what a walkable city looks like? I want to live in one.
Damn that’s a nice city. Love the fact that you can get anywhere by just walking. The walkways are nicely spaced apart from the roads. Also, beautiful “commieblocks” porn right here. I bet the rent for an apartment there is super affordable too. I’m not much of a city person myself, but I could imagine myself living there.
Why did I choose to study Japanese
Lmao same
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