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Cockmaster
Feb 24, 2002

Curvature of Earth posted:

82% of people in Singapore live in government-built housing. Of those, 95% own their unit under a 99-year lease.

Somebody will probably complain about the bland concrete slab design, but concrete slab apartments are really the ideal: they block sound and vibrations, giving a sense of privacy that most other kinds of apartment buildings lack.

There have even been experiments in 3D printing concrete:

http://www.contourcrafting.org/

If it could be made to work for high-rise buildings (I've seen concept drawings for that, but actually attempting it is probably a few years off), something like that could make building new housing way faster and way less expensive.

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