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for drones and jetpacks
Well, there's that too, but it would be a start if they could just make towns more comfortable for pedestrians and cyclists at ground level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe8YSVzxx14
It didn't used to be. Your structural engineer would include a fairly crude wind load factor in his calculations to make sure your house didn't blow down (hint: use bricks rather than sticks or straw) but nobody cared that the flow field around the base of a tower block was a mortal hazard to cyclists in anything more than a light breeze (see Euston Tower)