If I was building a new city I would make a modern tulou and heavily restrict access to create an insular high trust easily defensible community

Shops/retail/doctors/services etc in the bottom, homes on top

Drone nets, fully surveilled outside, turrets….

Still contemplating entrance requirements 

Most network cities today are bound by crackhead ideology and I’m not about to go apocalyptic Protestant cult leader

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To me this is the future of urban living. It’s the next gen of the amenity rich apartment building I already lived in, just with more stringent application criteria and better self defense

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You need some ties to bind. Why do you think people fight so hard to preserve their ethnostates? Why do you think Japan is so nice (they are allowed to have one).

We can’t have one in US. So we have to do stuff like this to bring back pockets of high trust living in the low trust nation.

Fascinating! I will read up on them. 

To concretize an ideology into a built community is quite revealing. Inside our heads it’s easy to minimize the downsides of a plan. “What could possibly go wrong?” Laying bricks we see the problems pretty quickly.

They kind of look like that!! This is the type of community Mulan (from the movie) lived in ha