That's heartbreaking

Looks like a dystopian video game.

I live in Japan and have seen dense, but this is just depressing

Imagine going home drunk in that neighborhood. You'll visit 17 neighbors, before you find your house :D

The density is not the issue here; it's the monotony. If each home were personalized, it would appear much more appealing.

Vivarium in real life

The dark colours are not good for the heat in summer

Some of those houses look fairly spacious and there's at least a small gap in between them. You should go to the UK where 20 floor council flats and terraced housing are the norm.

I like it. They look like nice houses.

FFS just make rowhouses. There's just unnecessary exterior walls here that could be fully insulated and more efficient.

This is not a realistic picture of The Ponds at all.

I've defended American developments, but what's the point of this? Why not townhomes or towers? So you're on the ground floor, so what? You can be outside, but you can't be anywhere worth being?

Black roofs in Australia are ridiculous.

Reminds me of some of the developments in Las Vegas before the bust in 2007-2008. Barely enough room to walk between the houses.

This is so dumb, at that level of density, just build apartments.

And they're all nearly identical. Barf.

As an Australian I've been here and it's awful

Liittle boxes on the hillside, 🎶 Little boxes made of ticky tacky Little boxes on the hillside... Little boxes all the same. 🎶 There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same

well, lives up to the name i guess, possible majority old people homes, retirement areas-

and each house would be priced over $2 million as its Sydney

"Honey, Did You Fart? No, It Was Next Door"!

You couldn't pay me enough to live there...

Bladerunner in the daytime

I spent a few weeks living in one of these "apartments" in the Wan Chai district of Hong Kong and can attest to how awful it would be to live in one of these full time. They're approximately 2.5msq, just enough room for a small bed and tiny fridge cuz the rest of the space is taken up by the bathroom, which is a toilet, shower, sink combo behind a sliding glass door. I didn't bother counting how many apartments were on my floor cuz I was busy squeezing through the narrow hallways filled with dressers and storage tubs owned by other residents since there's no space inside. Luckily, Hong Kong was hot and muggy in January, during my visit. So, I can only imagine how "lovely" these spaces are in the summer. 😬

someones gotta build some ziplines

This hurts.

You don't want the elevator maintenance crew to slack here

28 years ago we went to China to adopt our daughter. We saw huge decaying apartment buildings everywhere. The streets were jammed with humans. No wonder COVID spread so fast there.

They didn't knock down the pyramids or other ancient artifacts to build a city for people. Pollution covers many huge cities around the world.

*facepalm*

I built a sim city just like this once.

Nothing a lick of paint wouldn't fix. This is a joke by the way.

I hope the engineers who designed it know what they are doing.

This makes it easier to find a doctor there than here for me and I can't speak Arabic.

Now you see it, now you don't.

This is a township….. where black people lived during apartheid ( and now)

Is there a river under all that garbage?

For those not in the US, those blue things around that block are unhoused (homeless) tent encampments. I think this is Phoenix

Matisse is rolling in his grave.

Less trees, more heat.

Ginza. Some of the priciest sq footage on the planet

Quite honestly, you get what you pay for.

We have been looking out into green fields for decades. The land owner got zoning approval for a solar farm and all the neighbours are rioting and signing petitions against it and I don’t understand why. I am ecstatic. Solar farm! No pollution, no traffic, no noise, no smells, no obstructed sunlight. We are so lucky. Could have been a pig farm, or a whole new quarter like other side of the town.

That's not a balcony, it's an additional room.

Calcutta was once the pride of India?

🎶 Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes made of ticky-tacky...🎶

Plus an almost completely sealed-off ground. I'm none too fond of manicured golf lawns, but depression inducing grey concrete is definitely worse. It makes the surrounding place unneccessarily hot, too, and one heavy downpour will make flood the streets, because the water has no place to go.

When people are so brainwashed by their religious beliefs and the promise of happiness in an afterlife, that the quality of the here and now of real existence does not matter.

It's probably good that they've lowered the road like this to reduce noise