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

Well 😬 

Fwiw I think this redone for modernity could be cool and cozy. Don’t picture yourself in these ancient ruins haha

Makes urban living seem a bit unappealing. Reminds me of fortified enclaves in developing world cities.

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Yeah, his company is so similar to this concept. But I think defense is a must. I want to learn more about the application criteria for his communities. I think a strong filter is an absolute must. You can’t let anyone in

watch the adam neumann interview that just came out? not about defense but network states without the geolpolitics / soho house for housing / purported economy between tenants

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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