The East Asian high-rise development model is catastrophic for birth rates

7 ilamont 2 6/16/2025, 3:32:31 PM taipeitimes.com ↗

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PaulHoule · 14m ago
I've been saying this for years but nobody listens. I mean, you have kids because you feel lonely and take a lover. From an evolutionary psychology viewpoint people should be less interested in having children if they feel crowded. The literature is ambivalent on the topic though:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/225997

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1340041/

https://www.milbank.org/wp-content/uploads/mq/volume-54/issu...

garbagecoder · 9m ago
This comment section is going to fill up with urbanist walls of texts in 5... 4...