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ENBE | Final Project | Part A – Report | The Future City Representation

The Future City Representation

Venessy Chan Zhuang ShengID: 0314527 FNBE April 2013

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Contents:Introduction 3

The city 4-5

Ancient city 6-7

Present city 7-8

Future city 9

My “X” city 10-13

conclusion 13

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1. Introduction

This is the final project of Elements of Natural and Built Environment. Our lecturers had sent us an important message which is based on this project. According to this project, the current city is not safe to live in (apocalypse). So, the FNBE students are required to use their strategies and ideas to rebuild a new ‘X’ city which is livable to sustain the city which is in apocalypse. It is also important to understand the factors of apocalypse, what makes the city no longer to live. We are required to illustrate and sketch the layout of their cities and show to our lectures. They will give us some comments and suggestions to let us make improvements on our city. Besides, we need to do more research on the cities, such as ancient cities, present cities and future cities which can give us some inspirations and new ideas to build our cities. There are some important steps to build a good city, such as planning efficient road and drainage systems, arranging the zoning area of the city, building a good infrastructure facilities which can provide a lot of convenience to the residents. This is a challenging and brainstorming project, we need to prepare well.

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2.The City

The Definition of CityA city is a relatively large and permanent settlement. Besides, it is a center of population, commerce, and culture, a big town of significant size and importance. Besides, city is a part of lives and languages. Furthermore, it is a center of financial and commercial. Communication plays an important role in city.

New York City: A global power city

What makes a City?The combination of road systems, transportations, buildings, commercial and industrial provides spaces for people to work, live and learn. A lot of peoples move into the city to find their job and earn money for their survival. The growth in number and sizes of the cities represents ‘urbanization’.

What makes a good City?Nowadays, there are a lot of cities exist in our world which have different characteristics and systems to sustain their livability. Before building a city, we must think about the efficient ways to make the city better. Hence, what makes a good city?

First, a good city needs a good water supply and

sanitation system. To maintain a healthy body, the water of the city must be filtered by adding mineral which ishealthy and clean to the people. Water without minerals will also harm the body of the people. Sanitary system ofthe city must be good too. Clean environment will preventthe people of the city infect by some dangerous disease.

Secondly, a good city needs a solid economy. The situation of the economy will affect the future and lifestyle of the people. The stability of economy must be maintain properly to prevent some of the people in the city get broke and do not have

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job to do. It will ruin the whole life of them. A city which has a good economy will provide a high level of living lifestyle to the people. The people will not suffer from poverty.

Besides, good education institution also play an important role in a good city. The people of the city will be knowledgeable and know how to make their city more better. The sustainability of the city will be increased. Other than that, the people with high education will increase the technology of the city because they have a lot of knowledge on technology, etc.

Furthermore, a good city needs a good community. War never happen in a city with a good community. The people of the city will help each other and work together to make their city better. They will also contribute their strong points to the city, it is a good sign to the social and economy of the city. A good city needs them .

What is the future city?

Future city is a city which is better and has more high-tech technology than the present city. Nowadays, people are trying to make improvement on our existing city to become a city which has quality of knowledge communication and social infrastructure. Besides, future city is also a strategic device to encompass modern urban production factors in a common framework and to highlight the growing importance of ICT.

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3.Investigation & Data Collection:

Ancient CitiesMohenjo-Daro & Concentrate on Mohenjo-

Daro

Mohenjo-Daro is an ancient city which was located in Pakistan. It was the world’s earliest major urban settlements. Mohenjo-Daro was abandoned in the 19th century BCE, and was not rediscovered until 1922. Besides, it was one of the largest cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization (Harappan Civilization). This city was lacks ostentatious palaces, temples or monuments. The city’s wealth and stature is evident in artifacts such as ivory, lapis, carnelian and gold beads, as well as the baked-brick structures themselves. Mohenjo-daro was the most advanced city of its time with outstanding sophisticated civil engineering and urban planning. Mohenjo-Daro was abandoned when Indus civilization went into sudden decline around 1900 BCE.

Mohenjo-Daro has a planned layout based on a street grid of rectinlinear buildings. Most of the buildings and facilities were made by mud brick and wooden superstructure. The city is divided into two parts, the so called- Citadel and the Lower City. It has a large residential structure which was designed to house 5000 citizens and two large assembly halls. Furthermore, there was a central marketplace with a large central well. Mohenjo-Daro has a ‘Great Granary”. It did not have circuit of city walls but was otherwise well fortified, with guard towers.

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Information or element that you can use to your new future city

After doing the research on Mohenjo-Daro, I learned that the grid system in the Mohenjo-Daro is very efficient and easy to get the directions. Besides, I knew that the water supply system in Mohenjo-Daro is good enough to supply water to every area of the city. I am considering to use these elements to my new future city. I think they are useful and give advantages to my city.

4.Investigation & Data Collection:Present Cities

Paris

Paris is a romantic and most popular city in France. It has a very large population such as 2234105 peoples. Besides, Paris is very popular in arts and fashions. Many artist came to learn their craft and draw inspiration from its talented pool of artists. There are some prestigious university and high school in Paris such as University of Paris and Lychee Henry IV. They provide high education to the people. Furthermore, it has the largest healthcare system for a city in Europe. Moreover, Paris is also a major railway, highway and transport hub. The city subway the Paris Metro, was opened in 1900 and the transport system can carry about 9 millions people daily.

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History of ParisParis was founded in about 250BC by a Celtic Tribe called the Parisii. The area came under the Roman control after the revolt of 52 BC when having war against the Romans under Caesar. The town was romanised and grew considerably.

Information or element that you can use to your new future city.After doing a research on Paris, I learned that Paris has great grid system which can connect to all area of Paris. It is easy to get to the destination easily. Traffic jam is not a problem to Paris city. Eiffel tower is the landmark of Paris. It is good that I can put a landmark at the center of my city. The people will get to know their direction.

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5.Investigation & Data Collection:

Future CitiesMasdar City

Masdar city is a planned city which is located at Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. It is designed by British architectural firm Foster and Partners and engineering and environmental. At first glance, the parched landscape of Abu Dhabi looks like the craziest place to build any city, let alone a sustainable one. Masdar will be home to about 50,000 people, at least 1,000 businesses and a university. Besides, Masdar will employ a variety of renewable power resources. This project is supported by the global conversation charity World Wide Fund for Nature and the sustainability group Bioregional. The US government also supports this project and sign a partnership agreement with the Masdar to support plans on zero-carbon cities. It is also considered by many have the most ambitious targets of any eco-city plan.

About the middle of 2010, a rash of news articles announced that Masdar was faltering a bit. The master plan of the Masdar is changing the world economy. The streets of the Masdar is pedestrian-only with pilotless vehicles running via magnets and fibre–optic cables. The technology of the Masdar city is very advancing comparing to other cities.

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6. My ‘X’ city Venessy

The Plan of the Venessy City

In 2028,scientist in our country (Malaysia) had estimated the temperature in our world is going wrong and gradually increase. When the temperature of the world is increasing, the ice berg which locates at Artic & Antarctic are almost completely melted. Melting of ice berg cause the increasing of sea level and the land will be submerged by sea water. So, the land

is not livable anymore.

So, scientists of Malaysia send this important message to the city construction industry for planning to build a new city that can livable in future. Then, architects are planning to build a city under the water. The underwater city is under 5 year construction to complete. The name of this underwater city is Venessy.

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The layout of Venessy City .The geometrical shape of the Venessy is based on the combination of the shape of hurricane and circle. The 4 main roads of the city is inspired by the pattern of the hurricane, like turning into the centre point. The centre point will be the city centre of Venessy.

Why choose Venessy as the city’s name?Before naming my city, I had do some research about the name of the underwater city to make sure which kind of name is suitable for my city. I saw Lynosse ( one of the underwater city) which is from a poem called War Gods of the Deep. I think Lynosse is a unique name and sounds like ‘aqua’ things ( thing which is

suitable for underwater city). Then I try to modify it by changing the Lynosse to Venessy. Both of them sounds similar and I think the name is elegance for a city. Lastly, I choose Venessy as my city’s name.

The interesting part of VenessyEvery cities must be have their own specialty which is interesting. The agriculture of Venessy is quite interesting because a lot of agriculture technologies are used up to

produce high quality products and crops. Technologies which are used up are windmills, water sprinkler and solar panel.

Solar panel which is located at upper part of the city provides solar energy to the crops to carry out photosynthesis.

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The water sprinklers which are used in the agriculture area provides water to the crops to make sure the crops do not wilt and stay healthy. The crops are very important to Venessy because, the quality of crops will affect the income of the city. The balance of economy will be affected.

Windmill are used to mild the grains for food productions. Besides, it can make the agriculture area more windy and cool. Crops need a wet and cool surrounding to grow

The Technologies of Venessy

Water turbine which transfer water to power stations to generate electricity to Venessy

Oxygen converters which are located at the upper part of Venessy converts water into oxygen gas.

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ConclusionThrough this final project, I had learned a lot of things about the urban planning. It is not easy to build a city, we need to brainstorming and think about what is necessary for a city such as zoning, transport system, water supply system and etc. I learned that a good city needs a sustainability and livability. To let people to stay in your city, we need to provide a lot of conveniences and infrastructures to the people for providing them an easy life. Urban planning is challenging but fun. From now, I know more about how the system in the city progressing. City is very important to me.

References

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- http://www.nozio.com/europe/france/paris/destination_guides/history_and_culture.htm - http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/world/paris-city-france-history.html - http://detroitworksproject.com/?ref=dfc - http://project-history.blogspot.com/2006/11/ancient-city-of-mohenjo-daro.html

- http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/archaeology/mohenjo-daro/

- http://www.npr.org/2013/07/11/200462909/join-the-twitter-roundtable-what-makes-a- city-smart

- http://answers.ask.com/Science/Other/what_makes_a_city_a_city

- http://www.undergroundconstructionmagazine.com/underground-electric-transmission- installations-gaining-traction

- http://www.cimexchange.com/topic/2011-terminals-interchanges-and-turn-backs-for- metro-tram-systems/

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