"The right city" of the future

If we take into account the pace of change, then the refined urbanization today is not the United States or Japan. This is China.


A group of architects, engineers, and artists from several countries, who are united in the Dynamic City Foundation with the headquarters in Beijing, are concerned with modeling the “ideal” city of the future.
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They create an interactive web-based platform to allow architects and futurologists from around the world to jointly draw and analyze future pictures.

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One of these paintings is a project called Beijing Boom Tower (BBT) - hopefully, it does not need translation. But needs explanations.

The authors are trying to analyze and imagine what the city will turn into, responding to the demands of the growing real estate market? Is it possible that the network of tall towers, connected by bridges at different levels, will bring to the metropolis a new lifestyle that looks more like a lifestyle in the suburbs - communication only with close neighbors and social segregation, not only horizontally, but vertically?

Judging by their layouts, nothing good awaits us. Something like we were already scared by the directors of science fiction films, however, in this case, this is real research. The BBT authors call it “the last attempt to tame the city”, which threatens to grow into something completely alien to man.

BBT is a fragment of Beijing in 2020, where 5,000 apartments fit over an area of ​​0.06 square kilometers, not counting the numerous offices, shops and other public areas.


“Our structure includes many“ inborn ”gradients that relate to the level of comfort and the cost of the apartment,” explains Mars, “the upper bridges connect the bright and“ airy ”penthouses.
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Although, not everyone thinks so gloomy ...