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This is crackpot. But there is a kernel of a good idea.
Rather than build the city that spins. Build an elevated public transport system as a series of loops. Each loop going the opposite direction from the loops adjacent.
You would get the same benefits of this crazy idea, without the stupid parts.
The cost of constructing the rotating disks would dwarf the cost of all of the buildings combined. Building the disks, drive mechanism, and support structure would be on par with building 10,000 Golden Gate bridges. Kinda makes the economics look a little ridiculous.
Just move the space between the land masses instead.
Oh wait, that would be just like mass transit! Duh!!
The perfect location for our national government! Since all it does is go around in circles anyway!
In #24 spsffan said: The perfect location for our national government! Since all it does is go around in circles anyway!
Nah. It’s the ideal layout for a prison.
If some old elected repres…, uh, ignurnt prisoner, falls between the disks and gets ground into paste, well, it just saves on the next meal… twice. (once ’cause its one less mouth to feed and once ’cause its more meat to feed the other elected repres… uh, igurnt prisoners.)
But it doesn’t need to move around for that. Waste of energy…
Just build it on a large “shake table” earthquake simulator.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. We’re still waiting for our flying cars and robot maids.
Magical
I want the Dramamine franchise!
Neat but impractical. As many here have noted this would need some crazy machinery. Easier to build layers of height. Underground, ground level and upper level to reduce travel distances.
Actually I guess each band could be floating to make contruction cheaper and make it cheaper and smoother to move.
But:
The whole city is only 2 miles across which would be an easy 25-30 minute walk without any crazy moving parts! That would be the max distance! So really pointless design.
The one thing I keep noticing about all these urban utopias that are pedestrian centric is that they have zero allowance for people who have difficulty walking or climbing stairs. You’ll never see an elevator or walking ramp.
In a wheel chair? Broke your leg and are now on crutches? Have severe arthritis in the hips, knees, and/or ankles? Have little physical energy due to a severe flu or ongoing chemotherapy? You’re f*cked in those “utopias”. The designers watched “Logan’s Run” too often and presume everybody will be in the peak of health and fitness. It shows in every single “utopian city” design. All that’s ever missing are the “carousels” where the disabled go to be “renewed”.
BTW, the 100x speed of the animation gives in a “Matrix” vibe as in the scene in the white emptiness where the miles of weapons racks zoom up to and past you.
Very limited in size.
Based on the 100x video it appears it would take 20 minutes to do a full rotation.
So if it’s 1 mile radius, then you are moving 20 miles an hour. And if that is one of the inner two rings, then the outer rings is moving 20 miles an hour in the other direction!
This could be a good microgravity orbiting space city design.
#21–Yank==Bravo. China could actually do it. Building a new Chicago every few months from scratch out in the farm fields. I’ll bet they just never thought of your excellent recognition.
Above ground or under? I can see advantages to both. There is a “charm” to growth that comes helter skelter but the efficiency of circular mass transit could have many unexpected benefits.
Hey, do you know the way to Shell Beach?
Whoever had that vision obviously has no idea what happens beneath a city. Perhaps that city planner(s) has been playing a few too many video games (and now has a very warped sense of reality)?
Just for starters, does this city planner even know just how far down even a modest 10-story building has to be excavated when it’s not moving? Calling this idea crackcpot may be a compliment. I think I’d call it insane!
Instead of spinning the whole damn city, put moving slidewalks between the circles. Or not.
#23 is right… same effect by moving the walkways (or using other mass transit in the rings)and much easier and cheaper to build.
Where does the poop go?
It certainly would make landing at Rotating City Airport that much more challenging.
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