alt Hacker NewsSlight tangent, but to me futuristic cities are actually places like Amsterdam, with cozy streets and bike lanes everywhere, not places like Dubai with 16-lane freeways and a quasi-slave underclass staffing the tacky malls.
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It's 40+ degrees every day in the summer with high humidity, nobody who can afford a car is cycling in any of these cities.
It's not really about town planning it's just how it is
I guess it depends on if you were a Gibson fan or an Asimov fan as a teen
If you take futuristic to mean „looking like the future“, it think the second option is sadly more futuristic for some people
This is a hilarious comparison given Amsterdam's own history with regard to immigration. Not even historically but contemporarily too.. Just Eat, probably the largest employer of bargain bucket labour across Europe today is headquartered in Amsterdam
A lot of people don’t like bikes. I am down for salty licorice though.
And yet Amsterdam has a world famous seedy district
Its sad that people think the "future" is all about owning stuff for yourself and not what the city can provide to its population.