Totally.

The first people I met that were vegan, trans, queer and used pronouns and also were internationalist intersectionalist (yes all of that at the same time) were punks in squats, who were poor, not seldomly drop outs (from school or in general) and most did not have rich or even economical okay parents. That was in the 90s-early 2000s.

But it is too hard for our Dr. Engineering to use words like they, fuck off.

Thanks I hate the term now.

Not sure if that is a bit or not.

It is even cheap for bad land.

Selling NFTs?

Selling non existent colony shares?

https://www.inforadio.de/dossier/2019/wmr---mobilitaet-in-berlin/platz-da-daten.html

Has some information about percentages for settlement areas, traffic areas and vegetation including rivers for Berlin.

With the given numbers of acres and using Berlin numbers they could create up to 180k plots of potential spaces. With 3-7million population and medium high rise (~4 floors) and that includes parks, public transport, regular transport and quite a bit of vegetation as well as ways to and from the city.

Though of course this doesn’t include any change in material conditions but only the ownership of the land which was already there. The 800 million were paid for the rights within the social relations to do all that, but the actual labour and the infrastructure costs are something that they likely won’t bear.

This of course means this project could have many reasons, but a part of them will be speculative. However I lean with the others who expect this to not work out or end up in scams.

I would love it if a sensible city would be planed, but I doubt that this is what will happen.

I wrote a bit to that, but if you give examples of specific row houses you ought to expect call outs if they are excluding a large part of the population. Really not getting why your vibe is as it is right now.

That I lived in a building like that and it was a huge barrier, that we have to reduce barriers and that includes not fetishizing old outdated ways of construction. Electrical wheelchair lifts aren’t a solution, they are an addon. Add on ramps would demand a complete reconstruction of the setting, having a different entry for you by feet and by bike might work sometimes in this situation in does create additional barriers.

My point is that the lived experience of people who see barriers and problems to be accepted and the material structures we created are to be heavily critiqued.

Solutions to the problems are not addons, they are re-drafts of what is and what could be.

Yeah, most new construction has paper thin walls

Meanwhile in Germany you have noise standards that constructions have to keep.

You are very right. While it looks nice in terms of energy usage it is horrible. Design is also controversial and not ideal imho. Looks fun though.

I agree, they could be more energy efficient if they are placed together, but ceilings are often the more important part, having four stories and multiple families is more efficient in terms of energy and space than to have two story row homes, even if the former is disconnected. If they are partially connected they would of course even be more efficient. Of course having connected buildings is good in general.

However in states like the US some of the main problem in addition to how to place housing is that they are not well insulated. Well insulated free standing apartment buildings are much more efficient than row homes.

High density low rise (3-4 stories) of the Netherlands aren’t too bad in terms of energy efficiency, but I don’t mind higher stuff, if we compensate space for it.

https://spreefeld.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/PXL_20220904_171823813k-2048x871.jpg.webp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Vienna#Public_housing

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Felleishof.jpg/1920px-Felleishof.jpg

So you carry that bike up 1.8m each time you get home? This doesn’t seem to be barrier free to me. Same with strollers, trolley’s of old people and wheelchairs.

Do you like that they are so low or that they are connected?

In the Netherlands you have concepts which sometimes are bars/rows and sometimes aren’t (more free) often with similar heights (or slightly more). If you set them correctly then you can get an increase in access of backyard spaces which are semi public, you get a slight increase in felt privacy (as axis of views are not directly into the windows of your neighbors and alike) and such things.

Not a direct fit of what I mean: https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:dbc49d82-bbfb-4d50-8908-2c860bba0e10/datastream/OBJ

Where do you bring your stroller and where do you put your bikes?

Your comment does not belong in this subreddit. It does not add to the topic, if you think comments don’t fit in the community do report them and move on.

Edit You also are quite a new user to the lemmy-verse from this month (compared to multiple year old users posting to you), which mostly is reducing the quality on communities on one hand and also got quite a few comments deleted. I urge you to read up on nettiquette and change your attitude if you want to be a positive contributing influence to this community.