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By 2050 Around 75% of All the World's Population Will be Urban. Is This a Good Thing?

posted by janrinok on Friday July 10 2015, @05:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the depends-where-you-want-to-be dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Population density, when done right, is a great tool to make people happier, give them more opportunities (social, economic, cultural, etc) and reduce their environmental footprint. A big part of it is that you can reduce the amount of pollution caused by transportation and housing, the two biggest resource sinks, with walkable neighborhoods and mass transit, as well as smaller dwellings (but the city becomes your living room and playground, so the actual "living area" can be much larger than for those living in some exurb in a McMansion...).

Design makes all the difference. Central Park is designed such that tens of thousands of people can be in it at once, but you never see more than a score. Nanjing Road in Shanghai is, however, Blade Runner. Or are there only two kinds, Country Mouse and City Mouse?

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2015, @07:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2015, @07:49AM (#207322)

    I disagree. Indeed, in the big city where people are more anonymous, it's actually easier to just listen to your thoughts. Nobody will complain that you didn't greet him because you didn't notice him because you were in your thoughts, because the people passing by don't know you anyway. Nobody will interrupt your stream of thoughts for some small talk. If you want to see or talk to people you know, you explicitly arrange for it.

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  • (Score: 2) by tibman on Friday July 10 2015, @03:09PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 10 2015, @03:09PM (#207472)

    Those people look like zombies. Shuffling about with little awareness of what's going on right next to them.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2015, @03:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2015, @03:56PM (#207502)

      Those people don't need your seal of approval on their personal lifestyle.

      • (Score: 2) by tibman on Friday July 10 2015, @07:01PM

        by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 10 2015, @07:01PM (#207593)

        Good for them : )

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday July 10 2015, @04:08PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 10 2015, @04:08PM (#207508) Journal

    Nobody will interrupt your stream of thoughts for some small talk.

    They will interrupt you in many other ways. And there are many more people to do the interrupting.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2015, @04:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2015, @04:19PM (#207514)

    How is any of that different from the subub or rural lifestyle? You have room to do whatever you want. Your "thinking time" does not ever need to overlap with being around other people, unlike in the city where being alone is a premium. Doubly so considering with such space between individuals, if you want to see or talk to someone, you have to arrange for it and drive a number of miles first.