• odelik@lemmy.today
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    20 hours ago

    If you just repurpose for housing you just wind up with 40,000 people needing transit and overloading the system you’re trying to promote.

    We need to think beyond housing and towards having communities that largely provide the needs of the people living with them. Shops, offices, other non-office/shop jobs, and recreational activities need to be considered as well.

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      8 hours ago

      The neat part is that businesses can be in the bottom couple of floors. Though often this doesn’t seem to be done unless it’s the CBD…