Urban vs rural is a lousy binary. There’s at least 8 levels - Traditional rural (mainly Asia) - Large-industrial-farm rural - Small hipster rural - Dying industrial town - Charming lifestyle town (incl college) - Small modern town - Medium real city — criticality — - Megapolis
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i remember reading something about gurgaon or someplace where they built all these skyscrapers but no sewer system
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Yeah that sort of shit is unfortunately endemic in India where cronyism lands people the plum private profit opportunities, but nobody wants to/has funding for the necessary civic support piece
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part of my "holey plane" idea in that ribbonfarm post was that the cognitive burden of suburbia/junkspace is so low that the gaps don't matter, the infrastructure just routes us around them (holes are more disruptive in large cities)
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