What I've never understood with these projects is, what's the supposed benefit of a single stupidly large building over a large number of reasonably sized ones? It doesn't feel like this would bring any meaningful economies of scale to the building process. It seems unlikely to actually use land more efficiently.
Like, is it really just some kind of an authoritarian fetish for giant projects, or was there at least some attempt at justifying it?
What I've never understood with these projects is, what's the supposed benefit of a single stupidly large building over a large number of reasonably sized ones? It doesn't feel like this would bring any meaningful economies of scale to the building process. It seems unlikely to actually use land more efficiently.
Like, is it really just some kind of an authoritarian fetish for giant projects, or was there at least some attempt at justifying it?