@pony Sorry, off-topic comment: that scene looks so odd. Only after few seconds it struck me how few people there are.
Scenes of void modern urban architecture...
@FailForward i had to walk a bit forward not to have like 40 people waiting for a bus at that stop in frame, lol
@FailForward but yeah, the struggle there is real, the developer and owner, local semi-oligarch would LOVE to have the place full of people out of the business hours, however consistently fails to attract anyone (mostly because he cannot (for regulatory reasons) and doesn't want to (for $$ reasons) build virtually any housing there)
@pony
I don't think it is only about building residential areas. Nobody wants to move to a gray concrete blocks neighborhood. What is actually missing in that photo of yours are **trees** and **grass** and rest areas. That's what attracts people to spend time in a neighborhood. And it's not too expensive either.
@FailForward yeah, but no. there actually is a fancy park behind in case you want that (i think it seriously sucks, but whatever), the place is well connected by transit and has most amenities you'd want, the only reason there are no people is there's only little housing, there is some, but it's too expensive because you can't build it tall enough (and even if you could, the mandatory parking requires expensive multi-level underground garages to match it) to make better return on investment than with offices, people would absolutely happily move there in droves if they could
@FailForward meanwhile people are buying whatever ekospol puts together in the most remote greenfields around the city perimeter (like, piggo)
(which is still usually superior to anything else you can have unless you're rich, because pre-war housing suffers from a lot of issues and is generally not good unless you can sink a ton of money into it and the post-war construction is basically irredeemably shit)