What is the city of the future, and how it should be? Above these issues reflect and science fiction writers, and designers, and engineers. It is often the answers they seek, in close cooperation with each other.
As a result - the intended fundamental aspects that have become an integral part of any modern city of the future project. This concern for the environment and ease of movement, space savings and the desire for a vertical building.
We offer to meet with the 10 project cities of the future. Some of the conceptual projects are only in the development stage, and others - are already under construction, in a few years to give comfort to its residents and to strike the imagination of its guests.
Build a city in which you can do without the car, it took the Chinese government approved the draft of the settlement Great City. "The great city" is built from the ground not far from Chengdu. City will be designed for 80 thousand people, and any movement on it will be possible to make walking or cycling without any problems.
Quickly get anywhere in the city to help its unique designing - residential center will be located in the heart of the Great City, and the road, office and administrative buildings - around him. Thus to reach on foot from the center to the outer ring of the parks, you will need to spend no more than 10 minutes.
According to the project, the Chinese city of the future will consume 58% less water and 48% less electricity. Thus the quantity of waste in it is lower by 89% than in similar-sized cities.
If the Chinese Great City - a city without cars, the Masdar in the United Arab Emirates - a city without cars and without skyscrapers.
Masdar is already being built from scratch in the middle of the desert near Abu Dhabi. The main feature of the city will be its complete independence from traditional energy sources. Instead of oil, gas and coal Masdar will get energy from the sun, wind and geothermal sources. Thus, he will become the first city with zero carbon emissions.
In this city of the future a special place will be given to high-speed public transport giant "sunflowers" will cover the streets of the heat of the day, and the energy accumulated by them will be used only at night.
Dubai - another city of the UAE, who can become a "green" city of the future. Baharash Architecture company's specialists have created a project, which used the world's major achievements in eco-construction.
Their project includes 550 luxury villas, schools and organic farms, energy which will produce 200 square kilometers of solar panels.
Solar panels will be able to give the city half of its needs, and the use of environmentally friendly public transport will compensate for the remaining part of carbon emissions.
In Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture Office believe that the superdense building - one of the business cards of the city of the future.
Office Experts offer to transform the city of the future of the second largest Swedish city of Gothenburg. According to their plans, super construction and use of roof to be placed on their vegetable gardens, solar panels and windmills will satisfy all the needs of residents in food and energy.
Furthermore, such construction significantly weaken the traffic and help make the city the river's main transport artery.
In John Wardle Architects suggested what might be the Australian Melbourne 100 years. Their Multiplicity project ("multiple") demonstrates the huge metropolis, growing not in breadth, and up and down.
To navigate the future of Melbourne will be used underground and airways, and total transparent "roof" will be created over the city, which will be used for growing food, collecting water and solar energy.
Puerto Rican city of San Juan - is another city in which decided to completely abandon the car. But unlike the Great City and Masdar, the San Juan is not created from scratch and rebuilt.
The city authorities, worried about the rapid decline in the number of residents to invest in the restructuring of $ 1.5 billion. The main objective is to abandon the car and creating the most beautiful pedestrian areas. The authorities of San Juan hopes that eco-friendly town with excellent facilities for a relaxed holiday will attract both tourists and future residents.
Competition ReThink Athens was intended to find a project that will allow to completely rethink the center of the ancient city, will make it more quiet and clean.
The winner was recognized by the project, offering to abandon the vehicle and fill the center of Athens, green areas to create more favorable conditions for hiking. A small foot redevelopment will allow easy reach of the center in the neighboring areas.
Shang-Sui - another Chinese city of the future in our review. Making his project is studio MAD Architects, as well as the basis of the idea of veneration in China put the water element and the mountains.
Shang-Sui is a city with a large number of multifunctional skyscrapers. In each of them for residents and visitors will be available to dozens of public places with pieces of nature for a relaxing holiday and contemplation.
Authors of the project believe that the future - for the high density of settlement, because it allows to easily get to any point on foot, by bike or public transport.
One of the most original projects competition eVolo 2011 Skyscraper Competition became NeoTax project. Its essence - in the construction of houses is not only up, but also to the sides of trees. Simply put, the home city of the future will occupy only a small area on the ground but in the air at the level of 10-20 floors, they will grow in all directions.
Thus, it will be able to preserve the green spaces and the buildings themselves through the construction of additional modules that offer people a much larger area to live and work.
Drawing on the ideas of natural forms, Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut has offered the city of the future project for the Chinese city Shenchzhenya.
Each building, conceived according to Callebaut, will look like a pyramid from the sea pebbles set against each other. The architect stresses that this design will fill the city with positive energy and will allow to equip the gardens and orchards directly in residential towers.
In addition, the "pyramid of stones" will be wind turbines and solar panels, and high-density apartments and houses will reduce the role of the vehicle.
