...either one lane of road, at 60 mph, w cars carrying 5 people on average, w/o stopping...or 5 lanes, 1 person avg, same speed, no stopping
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IF--big if--the only limits to human development are ingenuity, then I think "3 dimensional" commercial space will be more common in future.
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Currently, development of this intensity only exists where the transportation tech allows it to: at a handful of VERY busy stations in Japan
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Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Yokohama, Shibuya, Tokyo, Osaka, etc...a handful more, tops. But I suspect this is the core of cities of the future.
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There is in fact one example of a city which WAS built according to this principle, now demolished: Kowloon Walled City.
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It solved the transportation problem in a drastic fashion; everyone who worked there also lived there. Remarkable place, RIP.
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Kowloon represents a rough draft, a trial run. The transit hubs of Japan are a second draft, more "first-world" this time.
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For this sort of truly spatial (rather than planar) development, high-capacity transport is needed on X and Y axes; elevators & trains.
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This, then, is my way of saying that cities w/o cars are possible, and cities w/o trains WERE possible...but prob won't be from now on.
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there are more obvious signs, but yes
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Harder to notice if you fill them with the beings that came from the third world.
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Yeah, worse too. At least the Japanese just need to produce more offspring without the competition on their own land.
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