Picked mom up from Kamppi, and we went of wondering how shopping malls are new outdooring places for Finns (replacing increasignly real outdoor activities... not a joke but a fact for an amazing amount of Finns), and how shopping itself has become new national sport (one day it will an olympic sport and Finns are going to dominate it ;o)... the whole thing woke up an old city design dream which no doubt gets it roots from heavy Science Fiction consumption of my earlier days. It would somehow combine optimal egolocigal effectiveness and bring nature back to urban life as natural things, not just an ackward unpleasent trip to land of mosquitos and Mooseflies ?
City would consist of one huge park/wild area and few tens of pretty loosely located huge towers having office-shopping-restaurang-leisuretime-production on the lower floors and flats on the higher. Each tower would inhabit upto hundredthousand inhabitants. Most of us would basically work and live in the tower. Towers would be connected by metro like direct links to each other (or even better - transporter belts providing constant flow between towers). Hop into "transporter belt" and you are in the next 100k person tower just in few minutes visiting your friends. Hop into an elevator and in a minute you are outside in close to pure wilderness.
This could be hugely "green" - very energy efficient - and also very human ... leaving us several hours more to live since commuting times would be non-existant compared to current ?
Cars ? They's be needed to go to real countryside but who ever would like to own one could keep it in the underground at the edges of the city - again metro connection to these roadtraffic end-points.
Well actually I managed to describe some ant societies - good job Tuomo...
One day I have time again to read Sci-Fi and build wild dreams...
Random thoughts and things which would be nice to remember ... documented mainly for myself
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