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    I have in-laws living in China, and honestly - it’s a lot easier to navigate those sorts of high rises than you might think.

    Most residential buildings I’ve visited have lots of dedicated lifts, so only 2 apartments per floor share one lift. So you would only need to provide something like: Tower 37, Floor 19, Apartment 2.

    The Chinese love their delivery apps, too - their drivers (technically scooter riders) are very used to this.

    Now the city of Chongqing is a whole seperate matter, that place is an M. C. Escher drawing in real life!

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      how can people stay sane if the numbers go up in a predictable fashion? My American brain cannot comprehend the horrors associated with repeating patterns in housing style and numbering.

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        North America, and Americans in particular, love to claim everything big. Big restaurants, big malls, big cars, big highways, big buildings, big country.

        Except efficiency is somehow forgotten. So you get 12 lane highways that are constantly clogged with traffic. 100 floor office buildings that have lineups at the elevator between 8-9 and 17-1730. Strip malls that you have to get to by car even if you live next door. And transit that gets you nowhere.

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        The American brain should be perfectly adapted to this sort of scenario! Just think it like one of those suburban cookie-cutter HOA developments, but vertical!

        As for counting with multiple numbers, y’all love to do that already! feet & inches, pounds & ounces etc.

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    Any apartment building that size should have a couple floors of retail, especially food - they would make a fortune. If I lived there I would illegally sell teriyaki or something out of my apartment. Better still, run it like a street drug business - pay cooks and delivery people, and have distributors in between - they alone know where the kitchens are. Eventually it’s the chicken fingers episode of Community.

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      Costco recently opened a location in California that is also a high rise apartment building

      Imagine, rotisserie chicken every day

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      Until you realize that every other neighbor does the same, there’s a price war going on, the sole supplier of a key ingredient leverages their monopoly, and the good cooks are bribing the delivery people to cut you out of the loop.

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    Probably not that man for the food deliverer. High density implies having more than 1 order and there are likely many entrances and building numbers.

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      Right? I’m mass texting my deliveries “hey I’m out front with about 12 other orders. If you need it delivered to your door here it’ll be a few extra minutes. I’ll head into the building to complete any remaining deliveries at [time]”

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      I wouldn’t be surprised if the numbers were off by an order of magnitude. 1500 units with on average 2 people works out to 3000. Looking at the pictures, that feels like a more realistic number.

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        That’s about 50 units per floor. Which does seem a bit low from looking at the pic. But 1000 per floor (to give you the 30k) seems way too high, unless the units are the size of broom closets.

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        I counted 37 floors. If there are 37 apartments per floor since the building looks square-ish (those would be some small apartments) and there are 2 rows (one on each side of the building), that is less than 3k apartments. If each had a family of four, that is less then 12k.

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          Why are you assuming 37 apartments per floor? That answer is definitely no sufficient.

          Why are you assuming 4 per apartment?

          Lots of assumptions here. Even being off by a bit changes your estimate by thousands.

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          This is China, their apartments are casket size. They also do time sharing where one person sleeps while the other is at work and then they swap.

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            It doesn’t look to me like the kind of a building that would have this, but sure, maybe you could barely reach 20k is you squeeze people in like sardines.

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            This isn’t true for anything built outside the absolute inner cities, which this clearly isn’t,

            They aren’t massive, but they’re plenty reasonably sized and aren’t “casket-sized”

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    Do they generally bring it to your door?
    Where I live they just call you that they’re waiting outside and wait for you to come pick it up. Same goes for delivery drivers. Sometimes they don’t even leave the car.

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    Originally a hotel now full of influencers must have some interesting quirks

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      God, I hate influencers. I know I probably sound like a geezer, but their whole stchtick is encouraging us to buy useless shit. Before, we had adverts, but now we have people who dedicate their waking hours to this, and for peanuts, unless they are highly successful

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        It’s a matter of perspective and use — high density one place means you can have open space somewhere else, for a given amount of land.

        I’d much prefer a few large dense housing complexes, surrounded by green space, than suburban sprawl.

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          I’d also prefer something denser than suburban sprawl, but I think there’s a balance point between that and what the post is showing.

          I think that 3-5 story apartments with shops underneath are the best ones, because they aren’t too dense while also not wasting space.

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            Make those with decent construction so every cough and sneeze isn’t broadcasted to all of your neighbors with good design so it’s disability friendly, and that is the dream right there.

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      Arcolgies can be a cool idea though if done right. Granted it hasn’t been done given the amount of resources, planning, logistics, etc required. Still, cool idea.

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    There’s a good chance that apartment building has easy to find organized unit numbers that pizza delivery guy can understand. Building may even have multiple front entrances each with distinct addresses.

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      Once saw a (German) documentary about this building. They have drop-off places on the ground floor where delivery drivers leave their goods in locked boxes. Payment and and locking/unlocking of the box is done digitally through phone.

      P.S.: This one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgVXPEORuA0

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        The luxury floors should have automated dumbwaiters, so there’s a little rectangle in the wall that’s basically a primitive replicator. Trash leaves through the same chute.

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        Pizza Hut makes a deal with the government to put all the pepperoni customers on the same floors, veggie people on other floors, etc. The lava cake freaks… there’s a special floor for them.

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      Yeah, I’ve delivered pizza in a city of over 100k people. The whole idea of an address is to figure out where the destination is down to the personal residence. Doesn’t matter if the people are spread out in a single building or many buildings.

      I didn’t go knocking on every door any time someone ordered pizza to an apartment. Biggest concern about apartments were if they had a buzzer, if that buzzer worked, and if the code matched the unit number or would be easy to figure out based on the information provided. And if it wasn’t, their phone number was part of the information provided.

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    We’ve heard about car brain, this is its cousin, detached house brain.

    Tall, wide, building, scary!! OoooOoOooOoOoh

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      I mean it’s absolutely nuts how many people this building holds. I’m guessing that the majority of towns across the majority of the US land area have populations smaller than this one building. Probably likewise throughout most of Europe. The population density of this building is crazy. 115/km^2 (apparently the building is 260km^2)

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        Your math is wrong. 260km^2 would mean 10 miles long and 10 miles wide.
        Unless you count floor space, but that’s not how population density is measured.

        And even then, 115/km^2 means every person would have 2 football fields of space.