https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUuy94brhLI Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, GC City & Perth, are all allowed to have taller buildings than little stumpy provincial Vancouver, Canada.
How Sydney´s Skyline Will Change by 2030 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzz6aXvTZko Unfortunatly, the AI voice nation wasn't set to an Australian standard.
That's just like when some people having a few kids & cars, are saying that there are too many people on the planet.
A lot of people will never have enough money to even own one car, let alone a private plane. There are some people that own 1 or a few cars and will be the first to complain that there are too many people with cars and trucks...
I never could understand when some ferociously bearded Range Rover drivers look like they are homeless. Are they projecting the image that because they look like a bearded wildman or caveman, it's good for the environment? Are they symbolizing that even if they lost all of their investments or their job, they would still be driving a range Rover?
Once I saw a guy sitting on the sidewalk with regular clothes with a sign asking for donations. Then I saw what looked like a caveman with scruffy cloths getting into his Jaguar, just a short distance away. Whether some guy makes a few hundred thousand dollars a year, or a few million, why would they want to look like they live on the street or the backwoods?
Then there are some billionaires who would like people in general to stop eating red meat and stop breeding so that they can have a better Champaign & caviar lifestyle. Then there is the AI server farm craze which uses so much energy, the owners wish that most of the "human herd" would cut down on their energy consumption. Yes, humans should give up and totally hand over their power to AgI control systems in order to have an inhumane world.
If someone has done well enough to own their own plane, mansion, boat & luxury car, they should be proud and might even feel fortunate. But then they wish that there weren't so many consumers & breeders taking up the Earths resources, when it should be for the cream of the septic tank.
Whether its the feudal system, kingdoms, Communism or crony capitalism, the top always enriches themselves and doesn't care if most people are closer to the sewer than those who live above it all.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-oakridge-park-mall-opening While shopping online can be a great convience, going to a mall can still be a nice tactile experience. Had the horrible Covid shutdown gone on for another year, people would have been more conditioned to order things online and perhaps even have to ask AI for permission to go out anywhere.
Despite feeble attempts to the moon and Mars, most of humanity is confined to the Earth. That doesn't mean that the planet should ever become an AI run prison. However, things like a World Carbon Credit Score, a Personal Compliance Score and having to seek permission from AI to go anywhere, would be the epitome of a Sci-Fi dystopian story being imposed upon the MA$$E$.
Thus, the shopping mall and public transit should always remain as safe, open places. Eventually, mall security and transit police might be augmented with robots and AI drones.
Fortunately, the new and improved Oakridge wont be like anything out of a dystopian Sci-Fi story.
Its so creepy how the Canada Embasesment Line was designed to only have 2 car trains, with no easy expansion ability to have 4-8 car trains. Indeed, to design a 2 billion dollar line without the capability to at least have 5 car trains is a very sad joke. The stations are only designed to eventually accomodate a 2.5 car train as if to symbolise the reluctance to ever connect YVR to both ferry terminals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakridge-41st_Avenue_station
https://www.translink.ca/news/2025/may/oakridge%20canada%20line%20station%20to%20close%20early
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhqoTku-HAA
People are told to not have kids or own any cars & avoid using air transportation as much as possible. Apparently, this cutting down agenda will help the billionaires enjoy their Champagne & caviar lifestyle, even morso.
Then there is the stot using natural gas agenda, don't have a fireplace & especially, don't have campfires or beach bonfires. Yet, its alright for the billionaires to construct huge AI Datacenters which require a tremendous amount of energy to run.
Then humans are to eventually be conditioned to constantly check with AI to see if they can get permission to go to another part of town, or even just a local store. All it takes is for the tracking AI system to say that you have already exceeded your carbon output for the week.
In a world where your smartwatch & phone, computer & TV are always gathering data and processing information on everyone, things become an intersection of Alphaville, THX_1138, Blade_Runner, Brazil & Black_Mirror.
Then someone like Boy_Kavalier is your regional corporate, feudal lord. https://alienanthology.fandom.com/wiki/Boy_Kavalier
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2025/06/23/understanding-the-elusiveness-of-smart-cities/
While an AI run city might seem efficient on the surface, there could be a layer of totalitarianism just underneath.
Training people to bark, grunt or roll over in order to not exceed their weekly carbon credit allotment is excrement!
https://www.propellerbooks.com/posts/2014/6/4/government-is-a-computer-alphaville
An AI run technocratic city could easily turn the place into a prison.
https://arcfinity.tumblr.com/post/85900501084/weve-been-having-urban-nightmares
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/jan/29/future-cities-in-film
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/jericho-lands-official-development-plan-vancouver
https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/jericho-lands , https://www.inspirejericho.ca/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jericho-lands-development-vancouver-bc-1.7360726
https://www.urbanstrategies.com/project/jericho/
https://www.jarmanrealestate.com/jericho-lands-development-proposal/
People have gotten so used to Vancouver being a backwater in a vast country which doesn't even have 1% of the world's population.
There is quite a reluctance for small-minded Vancouver to not allow what's big by Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto & SF standards.
https://x.com/CityHallWchVAN/status/1517347123225718785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Escreen-name%3Acityhallwchvan%7Ctwcon%5Es1 There are only a handful of cities in BC where an attempt of tall buildings can happen. That's because most of BC is a mountainous wilderness, or simply just wilderness.
https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2020/03/06/lights-out-at-vancouver-house Some people might be jelouse that others might have 2 or 3 homes, just like having 2 or 3 motorized vehicles. Should people in BC be limited to only have 1 home & 1 moto-vehicle? The next step would be to impose an AI run point system to discourage people from having no more than 1 or 2 kids.
https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3923923?v=pdf
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne-Toronto-SF
Industry represents employment, production and development, at least before AI and robotics might take over most human jobs. Unfortunatly, BC has quite a history of so many restrictions, which makes growth or expansion difficult. Its been part of a multigenerational BC mentality or agenda. Fortunately, the backwater BC mentality hasn't been able to take over all of Western_Canada and the Pacific_Northwest.
Despite that Switzerland could fit into BC almost 2 dozen times, it's been tough for BC to even have the population of one CH.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia#Cities
Despite the BC part of Canada being big enough to contain Switzerland some 23 times over, BC has yet to reach the population of just one CH.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_British_Columbia#Metropolitan_areas
So much urban infrastructure in BC hasn't been designed for future higher capacity demands.
https://www.nsnews.com/real-estate/bc-cities-turning-to-ai-to-speed-up-housing-approvals-9949325
With so many narrow bridges, there should have been several bus & bike bridges built to augment them. Of course Vancouver would opt to have shorter underground train stations than what Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton & Seattle have. Short stations means short trains, which means less capacity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Vancouver_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Valley_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Nanaimo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George,_British_Columbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Fraser%E2%80%93Fort_George
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelowna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Central_Okanagan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penticton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Okanagan-Similkameen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamloops
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson-Nicola_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanaimo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Nanaimo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan,_British_Columbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowichan_Valley_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtenay,_British_Columbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comox_Valley_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_St._John,_British_Columbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_River_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert,_British_Columbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Coast_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Kitimat%E2%80
Eventually, all such urban train networks will become fully automated.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ttc-subway-signal-problem-1.7407212
The loss of various jobs for people over the next few decades could be rough for people.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/12/11/ttc-subway-signal-issue-line-1/
A totally AI run machine world could eventually produce a very efficient, but inhumane world.
https://nowtoronto.com/news/ttc-riders-faced-multiple-delays-during-monday-morning-rush-hour/
Whenever there is a big movie production around the world, there is no problem bringing in the trailers & tents... Temporary housing units are brought into remote construction sites & other work camps.
Perhaps when such a wealthy area was built, the planners & builders thought that robots would replace the workers someday. Well, this is still suppose to be a human world with some robots. Not a robotic world in which AI will determine how much of humanity will be reduced.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH9FU7Gd6v8
https://openai.com/sora#capabilities
https://openai.com/research/video-generation-models-as-world-simulators
Sora AI’s Problems [And Solutions] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRmPlFidVkk
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Simulation+Theory
Ideally, if most stores and general services are within 15 to 30 minutes, that would be quite convenient.
However, with AI run cameras & authorization prompts from cell phones, traveling to another part of a city might become more difficult. If an AI human control algorithm says that you have already used up too much of your carbon credits and should remain home, that's not a system fit for free people.
More urban issues at...
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Exploring+the+15-Minute+City+Concept