Fixed it, thx!
Fixed it, thx!
Good point, not sure the the strategizing octopi will be a major concern for this crossing tho. I guess you’re never really save from those devious creatures…
Yes, I think this technology works best to fill a niche in denser cities, just not to provide for the food needs of a whole city. They would also improve the quality of life in the city.
Honestly, this seems like a solution looking for a problem. We already have a lot of agricultural space available and in use. We just use that space very inefficiently to actually produce food. There are huge benefits to be gained from switching to sustainable farming, and probably a largely vegan diet too (just based on Ressource use alone). Once farming is focused on producing food and preserving nature, instead of creating profit we can look to further improvements. Even hydroponics or mixed use gardens are likely a better next step here. There simply isn’t a need to cram our food production onto a wall yet, especially if that requires costly infrastructure made of difficult to recycle materials.
As far as logistics are concerned, we already have models for how many people can comfortably fit in say a theme park. Similar models exist for maximum population density in a city. If we were to use such models to estimate a maximum tourist capacity within a city, dependant on public space, transit and other infrastructure, we could find a very reasonable limit for tourist accomodations.
Either way, the decision to impelment such limits should be a democratic one, for the whole city. Private companies don’t often care for the quality of life of the locals.
Change in a city is just as important as preservation imo, as long as the change is driven by the locals not a foreign for-profit actor. After all, at some point there’s barely any of the original city left to visit.
Idk man. Sure I agree overtourism is an issue here in Europe, but this just reads like an ad for Airbnb. Sure Airbnb’s are more spread apart than hotels, but they’re still usually not owned by members of the smaller communities (afaik). They still syphon of income from an area, and help gentrify city centers. Maybe a real solution doesn’t involve another multinational huge company, instead focusing on small family businesses. A decentralized solution to spreading the impact of tourism, good as well as bad.
This is just ragebait, right? I mean it looks the part, got the reaction. No way it’s genuine, right?