Time to solve the housing crisis... - eviltoast
  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    It’s more like lots of rowhouses and like 5-10 story apartment mixed-use apartment buildings - hardly a cyberpunk kind-of deal.

    An interesting thing is that megabuildings only make sense in the most extreme of circumstances, think Manhattan-levels of location desirability. After a while, adding more floors becomes exponentially more expensive because of the new engineering challenges. Hence it’s rarely worth it.