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[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 88 points 7 months ago

That's way more than the population of the whole town I live in.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 82 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Why do such monolithic buildings give me such hell-on-earth vibes?

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Because that's exactly what we've created.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 82 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 75 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The pizza guy very likely lives in the building too.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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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[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 50 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 months ago

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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[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 40 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would be surprised if there weren’t several shops dedicated to the building.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Probably a whole mall on the lower floors and vending machines amd shid

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

Imagine, rotisserie chicken every day

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[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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

Tall, wide, building, scary!! OoooOoOooOoOoh

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 37 points 7 months ago (4 children)

If you think about it elevators are just vertical trains

[–] s_s@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago

passes blunt

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[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

If I search the name, half the articles say 20k, other half 30k. Honestly, I have serious doubts about both figures...

[–] rarWars@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 7 months ago

Snopes has an article on it, and even they couldn't come up with a solid number.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-apartment-building-residents/

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

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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[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 22 points 7 months ago

So this is what Cyberpunk 2077 based its apartment complexes on

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I am the pizza delivery boy.

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[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I found some apartments in that building advertised on some random website for immigrants and those don't look half bad.

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[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

I imagine with that many people there are restaurants and services within.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Am I the only one who worries first about trash collection day than pizza delivery (wildly unpopular in China btw)?

[–] amon@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I'd assume the building has a trash collection chute. My old apartment building had one.

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[–] infinite_ass@leminal.space 13 points 7 months ago

Probably has its own Pizza Hut. Delivery guys don't need cars.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 months ago

Does it have schools and shops too?

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

I wonder how may people have multiple lovers in this building, you know people be fucking they neighbors with this many options

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

The elevator is broken.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago (8 children)

High precision cannon modified to launch pizza boxes ... then just park it about half a kilometer in front of the building.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 19 points 7 months ago (4 children)
  • Launch a ball of dough against a designated target at the correct speed for it to flatten out on impact
  • Borrow modern artillery targeting systems so that a ball of toppings impacts the same spot a moment afterwards
  • Fire a HESH round to cook it
[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Communications personnel receive order ... they quickly process it to the gun crew

Gun crew load first round: .... 15TH FLOOR!!!! APARTMENT 1567!!!! KITCHEN WINDOW SECOND TO RIGHT!!!!!! ....... FIRE!!!!!!!

Gun recoils ... crew prepare second round: ...... SAUCE!!!! ... PEPPERONI!!! HAM!!! PEPPERS!!!!! ANCHOVIES!!!! .... CHEESE!!! EXTRA CHEESE!!!!! .... (prepared round is loaded into gun) ..... FIRE!!!!!

Gun recoils ... crew load HESH round: ...... COMPLETE THE ORDER!!!!! ..... FIRE!!!!!!!!

Gun crew grows silent for a moment .... there is a distant explosion of an apartment completely blow out on the 15th floor.

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Tactical ballistic pizza? Count me in. Sounds reckless and delicious.

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[–] BatrickPateman@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Now imagine a fire breaking out 😬

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[–] Konstant@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Imagine the condominium meetings

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