The generic city one makes no sense. Does the author want each city to invent a new physics? Not only are there quite a few different looking buildings in each of the cities, but given the constraints of not have unlimited funds, surely one can understand that many columns of steel, concrete, and glass will look like columns of steel, concrete, and glass from afar.

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dmd 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Cities could look like https://www.arcosanti.org/

Cities could look like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67

Cities could look like https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-blue-city-of-jodhpur...

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rmah 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The first two look interesting, the last looks like a huge slum. They all look like bad places to live. IMO, of course.

	▲	marssaxman 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's funny - to me, Jodhpur is most immediately appealing of the three. It reminds me of the medinas I visited in Fez and Marrakesh: overwhelming at first, as a visitor, but compelling, and full of life. I'd rather live in a thriving urban place like that, all human-scale and pedestrian, than some sprawling, soulless, car-dependent suburb like the ones a majority of North Americans inhabit.

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lotsofpulp 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Those are urban areas with a dense grouping of relatively small and lower priced construction. The Alex Murrell link has pictures of dense groupings of enormous buildings with very high priced construction.