🏙️ Debate Night - why is everyone in this city so lonely?

Why we picked it

**🏙️ Debate Night - why is everyone in this city so lonely?** **Structured debate + room vote.** **Short summary** Cities put people near each other. That does not mean they connect them. Vancouver is full of people living close together, walking past each other, ordering beside each other, sitting in the same coffee shops, and still somehow feeling like the whole city is behind glass. So here is the motion: **Dense cities make people less lonely.** You will have to take a side. Maybe density creates chance encounters, walkability, third places, neighbourhood life, and a public world where people are less isolated. Or maybe it creates a crueler loneliness: more bodies, less intimacy, more noise, fewer real bonds. This is not urban-planning small talk. It is a debate about design, friendship, strangers, housing, public space, and whether being surrounded by people actually helps. **A few questions already sitting in my head** * "Does density create community, or just proximity?" * "