VIDEO: A Short History of the Highrise

[palbert]

An interactive video on vertical living:

A Short History of the Highrise [NYTimes]

(Long)

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

on goin morons a human apes no figa simpull

is a high rise world ova so alls a get gold star so no a worrys
( include mid rise low rise unda rise )

thankyou

any moron ins planin fa livin read this post it no about ya zip

 

[SaskGuy]

I wouldn't want to live in a highrise. How would you drag large furniture up to your apartment? What if there's a fire? What if there's a tornado?

 

[palbert]

I wouldn't want to live in a highrise. How would you drag large furniture up to your apartment? What if there's a fire? What if there's a tornado?

For a while lived on the 20th floor. Worst is coming home to a power outage!

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

I wouldn't want to live in a highrise. How would you drag large furniture up to your apartment? What if there's a fire? What if there's a tornado?

things called elevators take your furniture up and things called stairs take you down.

 

[zoltanspawn]

What a beautiful presentation.

Here's Ernie Gehr's "side walk shuttle" also on vertical living, though I don't expect anyone will actually watch it.



As Kulindahr knows, the future of verticality may lie in arcology.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Those were pretty cool video's. I lived in an apartment on the second floor for 20 years. It had a certain sense of false security. Now that I'm in a house on the ground, I certainly don't miss climbing those stairs daily. The highest I recall being in a building would probably be the Space Needle in Seattle... I HATED feeling it swaying back and forth. A great aunt lives in a highrise in Chicago. She says the toilet water swishes around from the building's movement. After seeing how relatively easy buildings can fall from 9/11, you couldn't get me to live in something like that.

 

[piano1]

Very interesting video.