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Sometime truth is stranger than fiction. There are a couple of building projects going on around the world that would fit into any high tech level Traveller city. Take a look at these links:

Dubai Tower This one is currently under construction.

Millenium Tower Currently only in planning, but this looks like something out of the future. Totally awesome if they actually build it. :eek:

Various Designs X-Seed 4000 another futuristic plan.
 
I've seen those pictures for the proposed X-Seed 4000, but I didn't know it was going to be so freakin' huge!
 
Just a random thought:

A typical modern city has a population larger than a typical Renaisance nation. Imagine when future cities reach the population of modern nations - hundreds of millions of people (typical) to 1 billion people (largest).
 
That may not happen, like the predicted malthusian population time bomb. There is evidence that as nations become wealthier, their urban populations are decreasing faster in comparison to their rural ones.
 
Many of them over here in China. Taipai 101, Jinmau tower Shanghai has more buildings over 200 feet tall than any city can be a bit unsettleing at times. Look out your window have a huge wall. Like living in a beehive.

We also have the anchient too so it is a interesting dichotmy.
 
Originally posted by Madarin Dude:
Many of them over here in China. Taipai 101, Jinmau tower Shanghai
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Of course Taipei 101 is in the Republic of China, but Shanghai is in the People's Republic of China.
 
Originally posted by the Bromgrev:
That may not happen, like the predicted malthusian population time bomb. There is evidence that as nations become wealthier, their urban populations are decreasing faster in comparison to their rural ones.
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Good point, and great links, Brom! That 60s bubble home is priceless. Despite their proven record of energy efficiency and superior resistance to wind damage, geodesic dome and dome-hybrid structures have always been a tough sell, even at latitudes above 45° North. 20 years ago I'd have predicted more people living in dome homes by 2001 than in mini mansions. Shows to go ya.
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And, the sheep looked up and saw the sky was steel, when it did rain on those muggy days, it was danger. For the rain was filled with the type of concoction that used to propel the internal combustion engine of vehicles. The ventilators, of course, they had to let it rain, of course, but there was no real need for it. It was then he noticed it, in the back alley behind the communal washer, something green and a yellow head looking rather sickly looking sprouting out of the concrete. Every day he returned, and it seemed to grow. Then suddenly it was gone. All that remained was a ball of white fluff that dispersed into the wind.
 
No, you are not alone. His work will quickly go the way of "lime green shag carpet". It will never be an architectural treasure and it will one day be demolished to make way for an object that understands context, form and proportion. The Royal Ontario Museum has done itself no favors.

Just one architect's opinion.
 
Jonathan Meades did a fantastic, and grandiloquent, critique on the BBC a couple of weeks ago, of the way cities around the world are using public buildings of the Gehry/Libeskind/Rogers ilk to promote urban redevelopment.

Using Bilboa as a model (Gehry's Guggenheim museum) places like Manchester or Toronto get a museum/gallery complex designed by one of the approved cabal and then use it to woo developers to build shopless, treeless, school-less apartment blocks on old industrial land, creating an army of consultants to rebrand the urban experience for the cash-rich-time-poor consumer-users of the 21st century.

The hype is about shared communal spaces, but the museums and galleries seem to be museums and galleries of nothing at all, apart from big open spaces and sight-lines to nowhere. Ultimately they seem mainly to be used as conference centres for all the developers to network with each other and for local officials to clap each other on the back.

Someone needs to let Will Allsop loose on our cities: his Fourth Grace for Liverpool may have crossed the line for some people but at least it was bold and had actual reasons for it's design, rather than just lazy faux futuristic guff.
 
Jonathan Meades did a fantastic, and grandiloquent, critique on the BBC a couple of weeks ago, of the way cities around the world are using public buildings of the Gehry/Libeskind/Rogers ilk to promote urban redevelopment.

Using Bilboa as a model (Gehry's Guggenheim museum) places like Manchester or Toronto get a museum/gallery complex designed by one of the approved cabal and then use it to woo developers to build shopless, treeless, school-less apartment blocks on old industrial land, creating an army of consultants to rebrand the urban experience for the cash-rich-time-poor consumer-users of the 21st century.

The hype is about shared communal spaces, but the museums and galleries seem to be museums and galleries of nothing at all, apart from big open spaces and sight-lines to nowhere. Ultimately they seem mainly to be used as conference centres for all the developers to network with each other and for local officials to clap each other on the back.

Someone needs to let Will Allsop loose on our cities: his Fourth Grace for Liverpool may have crossed the line for some people but at least it was bold and had actual reasons for it's design, rather than just lazy faux futuristic guff.
 
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