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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Let's have a look at some archictecture designed to make the desert countries nice to live in. Yep, not really seeing a lot of similarities to Houston.

[–] spacedancer 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What, you don’t like our culturally significant stripmall and 16-lane highway architecture? /s

[–] afraid_of_zombies 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Houston is also one of the centers of chemical engineering for the planet. I have worked at facilities that were so big there that they had their own private train lines just to move stuff around the facility. And no not just oil.

[–] Relo 1 points 1 year ago

Large factories like steel mills always have their own train network. At leas there in Europe. I life close to an old steel mill that was turned into a landscape/architecture park. The railways were turned into bicycle lanes and make up about 80 % of my daily commute to work.

I know, I am very lucky.

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