OMG do you mean a 15 minute city!?!? How dare they focus us to live in such a place. They are bound to make us stop rolling coal with our trucks while they are at it! Freedum!
McMansions are for workers. That's how they got their name. Big like mansions, but built as cheap as possible so that they're (relatively) affordable.... Until they start falling apart in 15 years.
I mean fuck it, we've already exterminated entire biomes of species who dared to exist where we wanted strip malls, what's another pretty geological formation?
We might be the worst neighbor in the entire universe, because we handily win that title on Earth.
I'd think a zip line would be a much more efficient method of getting mail down. Then again it could just be a case of "well the mules already go down each day so they might as well carry mail".
Seriously though. We Europeans joke about the US a lot, but one thing I'll always envy/admire is your National Parks. You have to protect those at all costs.
Road-level parking should probably be addressed. That picture requires some touches.
But seriously, one could plan some nifty town, resisting flash floods, perhaps even utilizing them.
It might look gloriously out of this world. Only some bodies floating by might ruin it. Tourist campers upstream somewhere... Animal carcasses... Eh. Some filter, perhaps. A big mesh somewhere?
A) It's a National Park and you wouldn't be able to have a city esp with a Walmart on a National Park.
B) Like 90% of Arizona is untouched wilderness and undeveloped. Why would you want to develop at the bottom of the GC when you could develop literally anywhere else in the state? The cost of transporting construction materials, given that there aren't any roads from the surface to the bottom, not to mention logistics for people living and working in the Canyon, would be astronomical.
Just tell people there is gold/oil/some kind of rare earth elements there, people will start flocking, turning the area into a city overnight. Unless of course the government does not allow development on that area. Though I do wonder what would be lost aside from a beautiful view if people do start building a city in grand canyon itself?
Trump did remove national parks from the protection of exploration for oil and resources. He has also said in his "1 day of being a dictator" he would drill drill drill!
So I imagine in his new America there could be oil rigs in all of the national parks much like they are throughout Northwestern Texas.
Not only does this person dream to infest another piece of nature but with the most hideous city design my eyes had to see. Not that there aren't ugly examples to go by. I am sorry my american friends.