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[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 46 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 23 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] deus@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

some cities are built on mountains.

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