Urban design taken seriously?

 [[{“value”:”Why does “how would you design a city so that more people fall in love?” feel like an absurd question? It shouldn’t be https://t.co/Z2GfCYEOjo — Tyler Alterman (@TylerAlterman) April 28, 2024 GPT-4o suggested: “1. **Serendipity Corners**: – Implement areas designed to encourage unexpected encounters. For example, interactive art installations or quirky features can serve as
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Why does “how would you design a city so that more people fall in love?” feel like an absurd question? It shouldn’t be https://t.co/Z2GfCYEOjo

— Tyler Alterman (@TylerAlterman) April 28, 2024

GPT-4o suggested:

“1. **Serendipity Corners**:

– Implement areas designed to encourage unexpected encounters. For example, interactive art installations or quirky features can serve as conversation starters. These could change frequently to keep the city dynamic, such as rotating sculptures or murals with interactive elements like touch-activated sound…

3. **Social Puzzles**:

– Install public games or puzzles that require collaboration from multiple people. This could be anything from giant chess boards to augmented reality treasure hunts that encourage teams to work together to solve clues scattered throughout the city.”

Claude’s answers were along broadly similar lines.  For an economic answer, how about “raise the city income tax on working”?  Love is not taxed, but work income is.  Furthermore, these days it is relatively difficult to strike up romantic relationships in many kinds of workplaces.   (Of course you would need offseting “stay in the city” subsidies, in balanced budget fashion.)  Taxing female education is another bad idea, but if the unconstrained goal is to increase the number of love matches that might work too.

What else?

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