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One of the great features of this design is that it leaves so much of the planet for parkland or other uses. The first of the cubic cities really evolved from existing metropolises.
“What limits the size of your cube to two miles?”
“Air pressure. We find a difference in vertical height of two miles about all anyone can stand. Approximately the same limit is placed by horizontal distance. A mile and back is about as far as it is practical to walk.”
“How many cubic cities have you?”
“Fifty-three in the United States; about three hundred in the world. New York is the second largest.”
“What is the largest? London?”
“Jerusalem. It is the nearest to the centre of land surface of the globe. When the Suez Canal became congested past enlargements we blasted channels to the Mediterranean and Red Sea, made Jordan Valley a salt-water inland lake and the safest harbor in the globe, and internationalized Palestine. The consequent growth in population made a vast cubic city necessary.
“Internationalized?”
“Certainly. The world is governed by a League of Cities.”
“What is the population of the globe?”
“About three billion."
The creator of the modern idea of an arcology, Paolo Soleri, describes his idea this way:
See also this essay on the Future City.
Compare to town in one city from When the Sleeper Wakes (1899) by H.G. Wells, the checker-city from The Star-Roamers (1933) by Edmond Hamilton, the Todos Santos arcology from Oath of Fealty (1981) by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven and the terrafoam dorm building from Manna (2002) by Marshall Brain. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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