• Katana314@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Something weird and amazing about China is the changes in verticality. You can walk into a building off a plaza, take the elevator DOWN ten levels…and walk out onto a street.

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      I remember watching some stuff about cities where it feels like you went out on street level but really you’re still XX floors up.

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        6 days ago

        Odds are it was a video about Chongqing. It’s an engineering miracle that a city of that scale can even exist on such challenging terrain.

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      5 days ago

      There’s something incredibly cyberpunk about that. Give it a few hundred years and people won’t know where the bottom is where sunlight never reaches.

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      6 days ago

      You can do exactly the same in Wellington, New Zealand. There’s a bunch of buildings with street frontage on the Terrace and Lambton Quay, with something like ten floors of difference.