#vertical cities

[legabed]

Been listening to a lot of Julien Baker’s music from her old bands. Some really good stuff, I think they wrote this in high school!

[essay-xtiue]

Vertical Cities

References:

Websites:

Chan, C. (2016, Nov. 21). Why We Should Build Our Cities Upward, Not Outward. Gizmodo. Retrieved from https://gizmodo.com/why-we-should-build-our-cities-upward-not-outward-1789225888  

Robinson, M. (2016, Apr. 22). Vertical cities could be the future of architecture. Business Insider Magazine. Retrieved from https://www.businessinsider.com/vertical-cities-future-of-architecture-2016-4

Mok, K. (2018, Sep. 14). Is the Vertical City a viable solution for sustainable living? Treehugger. Retrieved from https://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/vertical-city-viable-solution-sustainable-living.html 

Natarajan, G. (2018, Sep. 15). Our cities need to go vertical. Livemint. Retrieved from https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/1LBa2FhavpqigaGnhUCQOJ/Our-cities-need-to-go-vertical.html

Florida, R. (2016, Jan. 28). The Relationship Between Skyscrapers and Great Cities. Citylab. Retrieved from https://www.citylab.com/design/2016/01/skyscrapers-cities-tall-buildings/431655/

Reguly, E. (2015, Sep. 25). Why skyscrapers are killing great cities. Report on Business Magazine. Retrieved from https://www.citylab.com/design/2016/01/skyscrapers-cities-tall-buildings/431655/

Greusel, D. (2014, Jun. 1). The Skyscraper Problem. cardus. Retrieved from https://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/the-skyscraper-problem/

Books:

Vertical Urbanism: Designing Compact Cities in China

Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xv5AL4andg

Essays:

https://ieltsband7.com/ielts-essay-type/ielts-essay-discuss-both-views/ielts-writing-task-2-horizontal-and-vertical-cities/

Research Topic:

City Expansions and the Vertical Urbanization approach: The Future of Architecture

Thesis:

I think the vertical city is a viable solution for sustainable living because it supports places for growing population and preserves land for food production, natural and recreation.

Counter argument: 

The main problem of highrise buildings is hard to manage such as garbage management, water shortages, and emergency.

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Introduction

Brief description

“Managing urban areas has become one of the most important development challenges of the 21st century. Our success or failure in building sustainable cities will be a major factor in the success of the post-2015 UN development agenda,” said John Wilmoth, Director of UN DESA’s Population Division.

Thesis Statement

The vertical city is a viable solution for sustainable living because it supports places for growing population and preserves land for food production, natural and recreation.

[infamousgod]

City sunset by Rebecca Howard

[sustainableyadayadayada]

I like this idea for a spiral-shaped building. This particular one is inside a glass dome which I'm sure would be expensive, but in the absence of the glass I don't see why it would have to be expensive. It could serve a lot of purposes from a parking garage, to a park, to private or shared open space for housing units that could be built in the center. It could evolve over time to be any or a combination of those things. Basically it could give people some open space even in a dense city where land is limited.

This also reminds me of some concepts I saw at the "Vertical Cities Asia" exhibit (http://www.verticalcitiesasia.com) - many of them either small-footprint, very tall buildings, or dome-like structures that arch over the landscape but still allow light through. These would let you use the ground surface for agriculture or just leave it in a natural state.

For these concepts to work, we will eventually need to move beyond steel and concrete, the great 20th century materials, to the next great materials, whether carbon fiber or something we haven't thought of yet.