That's way more than the population of the whole town I live in.
Why do such monolithic buildings give me such hell-on-earth vibes?
Because that's exactly what we've created.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Once saw a (German) documentary about this building. They have drop-off places on the ground floor where delivery drivers leave their goods in locked boxes. Payment and and locking/unlocking of the box is done digitally through phone.
P.S.: This one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgVXPEORuA0
The pizza guy very likely lives in the building too.
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.
You are all absolutely smothering the joke, lol
This wouldn't be necessary if everyone used the proper peer review process before publishing their jokes!!
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!
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.
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.
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.
We've heard about car brain, this is its cousin, detached house brain.
Tall, wide, building, scary!! OoooOoOooOoOoh
If you think about it elevators are just vertical trains
passes blunt
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.
If I search the name, half the articles say 20k, other half 30k. Honestly, I have serious doubts about both figures...
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/
25K then?
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.
I think the capacity is 30k, but 20k people currently live there
This might be better than most apartments I've lived in tbh, so it might work if looking out of the window and having the inescapable trap of modern life hit you in the face isn't a deal breaker for you
I imagine with that many people there are restaurants and services within.
I found some apartments in that building advertised on some random website for immigrants and those don't look half bad.
Food is delivered by pneumatic tubes.
Enjoy your pizza all scrambled and your soda is gonna go through nuclear fission 💥
Am I the only one who worries first about trash collection day than pizza delivery (wildly unpopular in China btw)?
I'd assume the building has a trash collection chute. My old apartment building had one.
I wonder how may people have multiple lovers in this building, you know people be fucking they neighbors with this many options
Kowloon city at home
Does it have schools and shops too?
Imagine the condominium meetings
Such buildings allow for great efficiency (it probably has its own stop on some kind of rail transit and still a reasonable cost of living) and that includes pizza delivery. Imagine delivering multiple orders a minute. The salary (and tips, even outside the US) would be great. They will probably even allow you to call the elevator with an app before you walk to it for extra speed.
High precision cannon modified to launch pizza boxes ... then just park it about half a kilometer in front of the building.
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.
Tactical ballistic pizza? Count me in. Sounds reckless and delicious.
Can’t imagine the wait times for elevators at whatever the start/end of normal working hours must be.
And people say China is not a dystopia
Poor delivery guy 📦 😰😂
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