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The advent of the city is a defining feature of modern civilization.
Its role is to enable efficient access to the necessities of life
along with increased social support and community interaction.
So how would we go about designing an ideal city?
What shape should we make it?
Square? Trapezoid?
Well, given we are going to be moving around the thing
we might as well make it as equidistant as possible for ease,
hence the circle.
What should the city contain?
Well, naturally we need a residential area, a goods production area,
a power generation area, an agricultural area.
But we also need nurturing as human beings-
hence culture, nature, recreation and education.
So lets include a nice open park,
an entertainment/events area for cultural purposes and socializing
and educational and research facilities.
And since we are working with a circle
it seems rational to place these functions in belts
based on the amount of land required for each goal
along with ease of access.
Very good.
Now, let's get down to specifics:
First we need the consider the core infrastructure
or intestines of the city organism.
These would be the water, goods,
waste and energy transport channels.
Just as we have water and sewage systems under our cities today,
we would extend this channeling concept
to integrate waste recycling and delivery itself.
No more mailmen or garbage men.
It is built right in. We could even use
automated pneumatic tubes and similar technologies.
Same goes for transport.
It needs to be integrated and strategically designed to reduce
or even remove the need for wasteful, independent automobiles.
Electric trams, conveyors, transveyors
and maglevs- which can take you virtually
anywhere in the city, even up and down,
along with connecting you to other cities as well.
And of course, in the event a car is required,
it is automated by satellite for safety and integrity.
In fact, this automation technology is in working order right now.
Automobile accidents kill about 1.2 million people every single year,
injuring about 50 million.
This is absurd and doesn't have to occur.
Between efficient city design and automated, driverless cars
this death toll can be virtually eliminated.
Agriculture.
Today, through our haphazard, cost-cutting industrial methods-
using pesticides, excessive fertilizers and other means-
we have successfully destroyed
much of the the arable land on this planet,
not to mention also extensively poisoning our bodies.
In fact, industrial and agricultural chemical toxins
now show up in virtually every human being tested, including infants.
Fortunately, there is a glaring alternative:
the soil-less mediums of hydroponics and aeroponics,
which also reduce nutrient and water requirements
by up to 75% of our current usage.
Food can now be organically grown on an industrial scale
in enclosed vertical farms,
such as in 50-story 1-acre plots,
virtually eliminating the need
for pesticides and hydrocarbons in general.
This is the future of industrial food cultivation:
efficient, clean and abundant.
So, such advanced systems would be, in part,
what comprise our agricultural belt,
producing all the food required for the entire city's population
with no need to import anything from the outside,
saving time, waste and energy.
And speaking of Energy,
the Energy Belt would work in a systems approach
to extract electricity from our abundant renewable mediums-
specifically wind, solar, geothermal and heat differentials-
and if near water potentials- tidal and wave power.
To avoid intermittency and make sure
a positive net energy return occurs,
these mediums would operate in an integrated system
powering each other when needed,
while storing excessive energy to large super capacitors
under the ground, so nothing can go to waste.
And not only does the city power itself,
particular structures will also power independently
and generate electricity through photovoltaic paints,
structural pressure transducers, the thermocouple effect,
and other current but underutilized technologies.
But of course, this begs the question:
How does this technology, and goods in general,
get created in the first place?
This bring us to Production:
The Industrial Belt, apart from having hospitals and the like,
would be the hub of factory production.
Completely localized overall,
it would, of course, obtain raw materials
by way of the global resource management system just discussed,
with demand being generated by the population of the city itself.