The next city should be a square!
If there is ever a completely planned city, it should be laid out in a square grid.
Each block formed by the intersection of the roads would be built according to a set pattern:
The benefits of this would be:
No envie between residence: Everyone would live in the same ugly block:
Efficient system of public transport: You could have trams on every road going one way, and trams on every cross road, So to get from any one point in the city to another, you would always have to only take 2 vehicles.
Efficient energy, water, communications distribution: Everything is in strait lines and predictable.
It would look obvious from space, so any visiting aliens would take notice.
The city could stay decentralized, because if any one area became a centre, the occupants of the buildings there could be uniformly dispersed throughout the city, because every building is the same.
Cost saving in design: No need to waste money on architects to design buildings: Only a few building designs repeated.
Mass production of construction materials.
Easy to isolate city in the event of a disease outbreak : Just build 4 walls.
overview and detail of planned city:
5 comments September 3, 2007
