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Comments on MegaLondoner Arcology Fantasized
London is going to need something spectacular, if there really are a million more people planning to live there in the next eight years. (Read
the complete story)
"Fans of Judge Dredd will also recall Megacity One - or so says Moira.
(Bill Christensen 3/25/2008 9:37:29 PM) |
| "Another important scifi arcology can be found in 'The World Inside" by Robert Silverberg.
"War, starvation, crime and birth control have been eliminated. Life is now totally fulfilled and sustained within Urban Monads (Urbmons), mammoth thousand-floor skyscrapers arranged in "constellations", where the shadow of one building does not fall upon another. An Urbmon is divided into 25 self-contained "cities" of 40 floors each, in ascending order of status, with administrators occupying the highest level. Each building can hold approximately 800,000 people, with excess population totalling three billion a year transferred to new Urbmons, which are continually under construction."-Wikipedia
" (thlayli2003 3/26/2008 6:37:11 AM) |
| "I like it, but I can't help thinking it looks like the star of the up coming movie "The Toilet Paper Tube that Ate London."" (Erik N. 3/28/2008 10:16:37 AM) |
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