A small city in a building would be awesome, if legalized.
Do they exist anywhere else?
Do they exist anywhere else?
It’s a massive building in the north of Quebec that contains essentially everything you’d need to avoid going out in the cold Canadian winter: apartments, stores, a school, even a strip club and a prison. It also serves as a wind block for the rest of the town that grew up around it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermont
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/02/fermonts-inhabitable-w...
It’s been done somewhat time and time again depending on what you define a city as having.
Surely the push is towards moving industry into dedicated areas (outside town) though.
No longer exists but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
The results were mixed haha.
Atlas Obscura has a really good piece on it.