Not everyone plays tennis and the commercial spaces would be on the first level facing the road, not the inner courtyard. Good complaints in general but not really applicable here.

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I don’t think that the first level would be enough TBH. Like; it would probably have to be 2 or 3 stories of commercial to serve just the bare minimum needs of that volume of people, and now half your commercial is off street level, complicating pathing from public transit.

Also, it’s tennis, what I assume is racket ball, a swimming pool and a couple basket ball court, so I think it’s actually a pretty good variety of activities, but still, not enough space for the volume of people, if all the blocks around it were the same density and had different varieties of activity, there still just wouldn’t be enough recreational space for the volume of people, even if the variety was absurd between them all.

Like, maybe the density is warranted somewhere like hongkong where the government is largely funded by land sales, so maximizing the density is important for making the land sale valuable enough to fund social services, but like, there’s just not enough visible recreation and comercial, maybe they’ve got a strip underground by a subway station or something. I’d be curious how they make this work.

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

10–12 stories, a little mall

map of Richland Gardens’s surroundings. lots of orange commercial dots are visible same map but satellite imagery

the lower stories would be more valuable. i would think there’s at least one grocery store on the ground level.

pathing from public transit

i think people are used to taking the escalator in malls

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yah but you’re gonna need a lot of escalators and they’re gonna be very congested. Like, I’m sure it can be made to work, I just question the wisdom of having the commercial be separated out like that.

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

most chinese malls mainland or not are used to and designed for handling that many people; in fact probably the rest of east asia too. they do have a lot of escalators. hong kong’s got 7M and the mainland 1.4B after all

[–] threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I also think those recreational spaces may be raised from street level. The perspective is not not meant to show any of that. Could be grocery stores etc. below it as well.

[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

You're assuming there are commercial spaces, not you don't know anymore than he doesn't know. So it's not really applicable here.