Top 3 Cities of the Future

 

1. Fixing an already existing issue

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These prospective innovations and currently existing initiatives that we’ve spoken about up to this point, all address the challenge of beginning over. Building a completely new city from start is typically less costly and considerably less complex than renovating an existing one to meet the same requirements. This is the ultimate endeavour in which the creative micro-projects flourish.

We’re talking about items like the e-QBO which might revolutionize solar energy generation in the urban setting. Its basic form is a normal black cube but it may take on many various shapes and sizes. It has a smooth style and integrates nicely with the metropolitan backdrop. It functions like a standard solar panel, but aside providing free energy, it can also be utilised in a number of other useful applications such as becoming someone’s home, or a park seat, or a simple paper weight on your desk.

And what about something comparable to Masdar’s autonomous electrical vehicle system, which may quickly render many personal automobiles inside any given city, obsolete? That’s the basic objective of Masdar anyhow; to identify and show us alternative and better methods to make our cities energy efficient.

In any event, this will be a hard effort for any country regardless of its economic might. The silver lining to this concept is that undeveloped cities have an advantage as most of their infrastructure may be created from the ground up and in a self-sufficient manner right from the outset.

2. The Venus Project venus-project-cities

The Venus Project is the brainchild of one 98-year-old Jacque Fresco who has planned the ultimate layout for our future cities. If we ever reach the stage where we create fresh new, high-tech cities on a regular basis, this design will most surely come in useful. All buildings and structures are prefabricated and then brought on site, allowing for a more coordinated and significantly less economical construction. Standardizing fundamental structural components enables for adjustments to be prepared to fulfil varied needs in terms of new technology and other structural designs in the future.

One of its other significant aspects is its round form. This will provide the most effective use of available resources which also include time; time spent in either departing for work or just wandering around. Since it has no “hard edges” like a conventional rectangular metropolis would, “walking around town” takes on a more literal sense and therefore, saving you time on your return journey. That’s some efficient thinking right there!

The backbone underlying the Venus Project will surely be the “mega, city-building factory” that will be able to mass construct complete flats or homes in a single mold and for several cities at a time. These one-piece constructions will be light-weight and impermeable to the elements, which considerably decreases the danger of earthquake damage, fires or floods. Did we also mention the fact that these “modules” may simply be transferred from place to place?

It is a high chance that when the technology for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) becomes available, nations like India, with their industrial corridor initiative, may more easily afford to establish and run a plant such as this.

3. Taming the High Seas water-cities

Like the Arctic Harvester discussed above, the Chinese have started designing the designs for their own Floating City. Driven by climate change, rising sea levels, and decreasing resources, China has decided it’s time to look about transferring some of its people offshore. With an area of around 4 square miles, this futuristic city will be built of hexagonal modules joined by an underwater network of streets and lanes.

The Japanese corporation Shimizu has built a floating metropolis of its own and titled it Floating Green. As the name indicates, this buoyant “ecopolis” will be nearly totally covered in plants and extend across multiple constructed islands. A thousand meter (3208 ft.) tower in the city’s heart will operate both as a vertical farm and homes for its people. Their aim stretches much farther as Japan wants to develop the first ever underwater metropolis dubbed Ocean Spiral by 2030. This will be a sphere-like home, able to support up to 5000 people and receiving its energy from the sea bottom.

We simply have to wait and see which of them will be the first to be developed. But no matter which one it is, you can be sure that all of them are built to be exceptionally self-sufficient in terms of food production, energy usage, and waste management.