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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
Maybe a bit in Kuala Lumpur? An area that basically looks like a small, semi-rural Malaysian town about 1/2 km from one of the world's tallest buildings. Although in their case it is separated by a freeway.
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That blue house with a tidy lawn is very interesting. How does it exist? Is this family paying $50,000 a year in property taxes to live in that place? Is Kuala Lumpur one of those cities where it costs huge amounts of money for a tiny flat and any house is a luxury? I'd guess the planning regime is significantly different from what we are used to in Canadian cities.
In Toronto the detached housing areas exist because planning rules artificially limit changes. Most Canadian cities are the same. Almost all development goes into the commercial core. There are a bunch of drawbacks to this strategy (e.g. it promotes the redevelopment of older buildings instead of the bungalow belt) and it's going to become harder and harder to maintain in the coming decades. It was only viable for a while because there was so much underused land in the 80's and 90's.
The buildings in that Toronto picture must be about the same height as the ones being built around Brentwood in Burnaby. The tallest proposed in Brentwood now is a little over 200 m. Those buildings are surrounded by gas stations, car dealerships, and bland postwar housing 5 minutes away by foot. Plus it has an elevated rail line. That should be worth some Blade Runner points.
Downtown LA was the actual setting for a bunch of Blade Runner scenes. In fact downtown LA is pretty much the default American urban pop culture setting, and has exactly the same kinds of buildings that show up in so many films. Just like if you go east of there you run into Star Trek landscapes and zombie apocalypse scenes out in Nevada (which are creepy in real life too).
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