China can barely eke out something that merely resembles this on the surface, and even then only through wide-reaching social repression and heavy State-led allocation of national capital
The United States had a slow-growing alternative to this but this current administration seems hell-bent on squandering the fruits of a soft global empire on tormenting a large swathe of its own population for the crime of being dysfunctional from prior rounds of torment
Also skyscrapers are cancer and utopian builds are pretty flat in reality ime. Too many issues come from building too high/forcing an unnaturally dense population core. Ideal architecture is low-impact, modest in its aspirations for population density, and oriented around germane circulation as opposed to storage/accommodating the sessile
Date: May 30th, 2025 9:07 PM Author: /r/starcitizen_refunds
“History is not realistic. Communism collapsed within three years: who would realistically have foreseen that?… in history, there are no accomplished facts… the essence of history is both real and unrealistic, for its motor is comprised of both fuel – will to power – and combustive – the power of will.”