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Vatican City State491 Posts
I came across a really interesting post on a foreign forum, where some person has published a lot of pictures of the urban environment of Hong-Kong. What they built there, due to lack of land, are spectacular yet, strangely scary cities of concrete.
I lived in a city for my whole life, but I find it so overwhelming when I see places, that have no 'free spots'.
In addition, when I watched the pics, I felt that this places are somehow so "alien" - there were no landmarks, the buildings lacked colours. Perhaps it is caused by the fact that in the countries I have been to, there are shops at "level zero" (I hate the "mall culture").
Somehow, this pictures remind me of Blade Runner, I wonder if I could feel there "at home". Especially the big blocks of flats, that have the windows pointed at other blocks of flats? Do these people even see the sun?
On the other hand, I have lived in blocks of flats for many years (but much, much smaller), so I could probably get accustomed to it.
Anyway, here are some pictures that I consider the best:
[b]do you feel the "lack of space"?
Blade runner?:
titanic?:
where is the light?:
moon base:
"west Philadelphia":
find the tree
wow:
ttp://img139.imageshack.us/img139/7459/8670ti.jpg
The scariest picture of them all:
The pictuers come from here - there are much more of them:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=322786
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Australia3316 Posts
That's bladerunner added to my list of movies to watch, followed by fightclub 
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ah yes, moving toward a more efficient use of land and space. I fully endorse this, although I understand that some people probly dont like it. Thats fine too.
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On August 09 2008 02:56 closed wrote:
Feels like some kind of dystopia.
I usually love big skylines and all but this is just a tad much, they could at least switch up the designs on the buildings.
Also, Blade Runner is easily one of the best movies ever.
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I certainly got dizzy scrolling down the page.
Personally, I would never live in such an urban environment like that :< (i.e. NYC, LA)
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i've been living all my live so far on the countryside but i can reach hamburg center in one hour and thats how i want it to stay for the rest of my life. Damn theres like no nature at all, couldn't live like that.
on a side note, it's probably awesome for skating :D
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Vatican City State491 Posts
I wonder if someone Chinese, could write something about the layout of the flats in such buildings? Are they conveninent? How many rooms are there? How big they are?
Or could you even show the plans of such buildings (on the developers websites) or something.
I wonder, if people living there know their neighbours, recenly I have moved to a block of flats and sadly I do not know the neightbours on my own floor...
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Kinda of reminds me of the matrix when the sentinels housed all the humans in those little egg shaped structures.
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I hate concrete... If I ever lived in a place like that, I'd need to go to some reserve at least once a week or I'd kill myself.
...I feel uncomfortable just going to university in downtown Ottawa.
Kinda of reminds me of the matrix when the sentinels housed all the humans in those little egg shaped structures.
Support free range humans? 
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That's awesome. I like the feeling of it. It's kinda scary xD
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Christ, wouldn't ever wanna live in one of those things. Reminds me of some kind of hive, I hope we master space travel before we reach the need to build those everywhere.
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That's pretty crazy how similar all of the buildings look, especially when they are built in rows like that. Imagine what the major cities will be like in another 50 years.
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I'm sorry, but when I saw the topic title I thought it was gonna be regarding one of the GTA IV missions LOL
It's just one of those weird things you remember for some reason.
Nice pics BTW.
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If you scroll through the building pictures slowly that is really cool.
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could you imagine one of those fallin for some reason? it would be like giant dominos
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Idk, I kinda like it. That is an insanely efficient use of space, imo.
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On August 09 2008 02:56 closed wrote:
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Those houses are just awesome, even though they are probably pretty mind numbing when living in them they sure are pretty to look at. There's some thing with the symmetry and order of it that pleases me.
Btw, the "http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/1512/9011zz.jpg" picture was in high-res in a Swedish popular-science magazine, looked pretty cool, shame it would be impossible to find it probably.
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This is standard Hong Kong for you. Now try to imagine what the underground stations are like at peak time.... Then try to imagine what they are like when there's a 1minute delay......
Also, the flats inside these tower blocks are normally very very small, albeit very expensive. It's pretty cool seeing how compact their storage is. They have just as many possessions as you and me but somehow everything gets tucked away!
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