Vertical City

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Wow, the weather has been glorious lately. I went out wearing a short skirt without tights, and no scarf (I get a bit paranoid of my neck being exposed during winter months for some reason). Sunny, beautiful! And I'm on the recovering end of a seasonal cold, which makes this weekend seem even more pleasant.

But today, I did another quiz for History

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[ceylon_tae]

Sorry about being late, but oh wow, thank you!! oAo

I guess if you're rich and aren't doing the work yourself, you can build an expensive mansion high up on a hill whether it's really accessible or not. I guess a slope won't always fill up bottom-to-top, either. That's interesting to learn.

"HOLY COW" is right, those planes! And up till now I thought the planes flew low by my house close to the airport, when we just couldn't have an acoustic concert outside. Planes that low is just incredible. But I can see getting used to it and missing it, too. (I feel the same even though they're not as loud or low at my house.)

Having been forced to read Le Corbusier and his thoughts about high-rise residential, the "New Towns" are especially fascinating to me. Are the school and church and station and all that generally on the lower floors or are they spaced throughout the floors of the various towers?

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Ah, the New Towns are actually more like literal towns. If you go look at the photo of CityOne again, it's that cluster of white buildings. All the tall ones are residential apartments, but in the centre (it's a bit obscured by the buildings themselves!) is a shopping mall, a bus terminus, a school, a church, a gas station, and some basketball courts!

But some of the apartment buildings actually do have small offices on the ground floor - it's not connected to the actual residential area, but accessible from a door on the street. I remember this as I've visited a doctor there a few times (my family doesn't live in CityOne, but very close to it...one of my best friends in high school did, though!).

[ceylon_tae]

Oh, I see now! With the residential apartments around the perimeter like that, it seems like it has really strong 'borders' like a fence of tall buildings, even. TALL - TALL - TALL - TALL - Central courtyard space with town-stuff in it! Man, that sounds really cool. 8D

How many elevators do they have in each tower for that kind of traffic?

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Wow...recalling Joel's apartment building, they actually only had one elevator >__< For at least 28 floors! Man. Since he lived on the second floor, we often took the stairs because it was faster (and now it occurs to me WHY it was faster - the elevator was constantly stopping and starting on its way down for everyone else!)