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Re:Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bay... by deepGem on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @02:10AM (#16427505)
Some of the recent developments in Bangalore are heading in this direction. Mixed use is absolutely one of the better approaches to provide a good lifestyle to people. The sad drawback is that you get isolated and will lose the belongingness to the city as a whole. This is not a big deal in the short term, but in the long term, a set of isolated societies isn't that harmonious for the society.

By isolated I don't mean walled, but a natural preference to just be within your conclave.

What might rather work is super fast door to door transit, which in the present is quite unrealistic. Congestion creeps in pretty fast.

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Re:Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bay... by xapata on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @02:20AM (#16427554)
What I find worst about modern city life is not having a relationship with my neighbors. I'd much prefer a neighborhood where everything I want is within a 5-minute walk.
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Re:Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bay... by ido on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @03:31AM (#16427888)
Being in a modern city doesn't prevent you from having relationships with your neighbours. We live in a dense mixed-used neighbourhood in Berlin, in a 4 stories apartment building and have good contact with most of our neighbours.
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Re:Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bay... by xapata on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @12:41PM (#16431273)
The key is mixed-use. If you're in a large block of apartment buildings, people go elsewhere for everyday things, only coming back to the neighborhood when they want to be alone.
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Re:Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bay... by kbart on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @03:48AM (#16427952)
"What I find worst about modern city life is not having a relationship with my neighbors"

To each its own I guess. I used to live in a small town where everybody knew everybody and absolutely hated it. Now I live in a city where I don't know even my closest neighbors, there's no pressure to interact with them and I love it this way. Though it's a personal choice, I see some neighbors socializing in a yard all the time, looking after each others' kids etc.

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