We can imagine multi-story cities like the shimizu megacity pyramid, which do effectively create more land, but no non-governmental process has ever created one of those, nor perhaps ever will.
Given that governmental process are used in all European and US cities to decide via zoning laws what can be build where, it’s no big constraint that the government is involved.
Your view seems to be very focused to the needs of individuals. It’s my impression that real world city planning is a lot about looking at interests of various businesses and institutions. It might be worthwhile to look into how city planning is done in cities where new building happens.
I do wish I had more insight into the needs of services, restaurants and stores and that kind of thing. Getting a location in a proq city would be a lot more like getting a qualification or winning a local election than the usual leasing of a storefront. It would help a lot if the project knew how to introduce itself to competent merchants. The city would not die without them, but it would have difficulty becoming wonderful.
Additionally, it would be good to know a bit about job creators. I wonder how far we could get by focusing on residents with remote work, though, maybe it could work without any physical offices, but having some on board would only be helpful.
After Jane Jakobs, a key difference between a city and a town is that cities manage to create new work. If I want to be a dog psychotherapist and there are people willing to buy my services I can start that career in a normal city. It seems to me that in your city you would only get a location for established economic activity.
I personally might not want to buy dog psychotherapist services but I want to go to Radical Honesty workshops.
In both cases money is a good proxy for deciding how much people value the service and thus whether or not whether a city should provide the space for it to happen.
Given that governmental process are used in all European and US cities to decide via zoning laws what can be build where, it’s no big constraint that the government is involved.
Your view seems to be very focused to the needs of individuals. It’s my impression that real world city planning is a lot about looking at interests of various businesses and institutions. It might be worthwhile to look into how city planning is done in cities where new building happens.
I do wish I had more insight into the needs of services, restaurants and stores and that kind of thing. Getting a location in a proq city would be a lot more like getting a qualification or winning a local election than the usual leasing of a storefront. It would help a lot if the project knew how to introduce itself to competent merchants. The city would not die without them, but it would have difficulty becoming wonderful.
Additionally, it would be good to know a bit about job creators. I wonder how far we could get by focusing on residents with remote work, though, maybe it could work without any physical offices, but having some on board would only be helpful.
After Jane Jakobs, a key difference between a city and a town is that cities manage to create new work. If I want to be a dog psychotherapist and there are people willing to buy my services I can start that career in a normal city. It seems to me that in your city you would only get a location for established economic activity.
I personally might not want to buy dog psychotherapist services but I want to go to Radical Honesty workshops.
In both cases money is a good proxy for deciding how much people value the service and thus whether or not whether a city should provide the space for it to happen.