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1. Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 02:38:31 JST Aven
   Isn't the optimal "15-minute City" just a single enormous building that takes 15 minutes to walk from one end to the other of?
   
   That people would just live out their entire lives in a single giant building, never going outside unless they receive a permit and pay for all the "carbon" that going outside "makes"?
   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 02:38:31 JST LS

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     @aven many asian cities are already '15 minute cities' because you have your small everyday shops in your own building, a pharmacy at every corner and so on. It's only in cities with stupid zoning that a high rise building wouldn't have at least a few shops in the ground floors.
   • :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶 (adiz@soc0.outrnat.nl)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 02:51:17 JST :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶

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     • LS

     @lain@lain.com Absolutely. My apartment in China had a small grocery, convenience store, laundry, pharmacy, school, community center, park, public swimming pool, and restaurants all within 15 minute walking distance. Re zoning, many of these places were repurposed apartments or homes themselves, and could exist because of the absence of zoning laws. My buddy lived in a high-rise apartment complex on the 20-something-th floor and somewhere around the 12th floor someone has purchased 3 condominiums, knocked the walls out, and turned them into one large convenience store. So, you never had to leave the apartment building to get snacks or beers or anything. In a neighboring complex this really cool dude had opened an Italian restaurant on like the top floor---the place was the size of a single condo (it was a condo, he just turned it into a restaurant). @aven@shitposter.club

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