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August 9th, 2019 : Cosmo Park
Cosmo Park is a three acre development with paved streets, 78 two story homes, tennis courts, safe play ares for kids, and open space.
It also has a high metal fence around it, not to keep people out, but to keep people from falling out. Why? Because Cosmo Park is on the roof of
the 10 story Thamrin City Mall in Jakarta, Indonesia.
| With a population of over 10 million and three times that within the greater Jakarta area, the city may soon need to build more neighborhoods on top of existing buildings. Life on the ground has become unbearable for many due to chronic flooding that occurs every rainy season. This is exacerbated by the fact that Jakarta is sinking as more and more groundwater from underground aquifer is pumped out for drinking, washing and construction purposes. On top of that, the sea level in Jakarta Bay is rising every year. |
| Jakarta is among the world’s densest cities, on par with Tokyo, with about 14,000 residents per square kilometer. But Tokyo and other megacities in Asia are growing vertically. In contrast, Jakarta’s density is sprawling horizontally with low-rise single-family houses. Such development leads to shortage of land leaving little space for affordable housing and parks. The city is depressingly low in green spaces—less than 10 percent of the city’s land area is allocated to open parks and gardens. |
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Wendy Haryanto, Executive director of Jakarta Property Institute, believes that the only way to make Jakarta livable is to build upwards. Government-owned enterprises, she points out, own vast amount of land in strategic areas but these land has low floor area utilization, because they are often used for a single and limited purpose, such as to serve a market or a bus terminal. Wendy proposes that they take these under-used buildings and build multistory low-income apartments on top of them, the same way the Thamrin City Mall and the Mall of Indonesia have done. “This could be a win-win solution,” she writes. “Public enterprises earn extra income from unused air rights for developers to build low-income apartments that they are obligated to construct anyway; markets get more business; low-income households live in the city.” |
Oh well it’s like a chicken coop I guess.
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Griff Friday Aug 9 08:47 AM
yikes!
phelps Friday Aug 9 02:54 PM
Do you want 40K hive cities? Because this how you end up with hive cities.
xoxoxoBruce Friday Aug 9 03:04 PM
Hive cities protect us from the mutants in the wilderness outside the walls, and provide plenty of nourishing Soylent Green. 
Griff Friday Aug 9 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by phelps
Do you want 40K hive cities? Because this how you end up with hive cities.
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Diaphone Jim Friday Aug 9 07:20 PM
Ten stories and dwarfed by its neighbor.
Prices seem reasonable.
Is that a car elevator in front?
lumberjim Friday Aug 9 08:58 PM
Learn to swim
Learn to swim
xoxoxoBruce Saturday Aug 10 12:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Diaphone Jim
Ten stories and dwarfed by its neighbor.
Prices seem reasonable. Is that a car elevator in front? |
I didn't see any prices on these, the three story units on the much lower Mall of Indonesia were $200,000 to $350,000 USD.
Seems to me somebody was planning on some kind of upward growth to build a mall strong enough to support that weight.
newtimer Sunday Aug 11 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
... to build a mall strong enough to support that weight.
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xoxoxoBruce Tuesday Aug 13 12:20 AM
It so happens there is two of the units at Cosmo Park for sale and a bunch for rent, in British newspapers
Apartment Name: Cosmo Park Townhouse
Location: Thamrin Boulevard, Thamrin, Central Jakarta
Tower/Floor/View: 10
Size: 124 m2 / 209 m2
Bedroom: 3
Bathroom: 2
Maid Room: 1
Condition: Furnished
Facility: 24 hours security system with alarm, access 3 in 1. Gym, swimming pool, Tennis court.
Surrounded by shopping center area (Grand Indonesia, Plaza Indonesia, Thamrin City) and
central business district (Sudirman, Thamrin, Kuningan)
Additional Info: 24 hours security system with alarm, access 3 in 1. Gym, swimming pool, Tennis court.
Selling Price: Rp 5.500.000.000, nego ($386,033 USD)
Another one for Rp 6,000,000,000.
The six or eight for rent, all of them furnished, at $2,000 to $2,700 USD.
Gravdigr Wednesday Aug 14 09:43 PM
Re: Hive Cities
♪ ♫I can see the concrete♪ ♫
♪ ♫Slowly creeping♪ ♫
♪ ♫Lord, take me and mine♪ ♫
♪ ♫Before that comes♪ ♫
~All I Can Do Is Write About It (Blackberry Smoke version)
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