Smart Cities

Good point. in particular, I think that the concept of Arcologies
- three-dimensional, integrated
cities that are a single gigantic building - could be explored here on
Earth as a precursor of what maybe we will have in the first moderately
large habitats. The Wikipedia article in the link has a few real world
examples that are kind of going in that way. (And I would also add to the
examples the Burj Khalifa,
which is a kind of
vertical city, with residential, corporate, communications and hotel
sectors.

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 1:03 PM, sraj sraj99@... [spacesettlers] <
spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
> There are a number of U Tube presentations on Smart Cities of the future.
> I found the presentations somewhat disappointing since they mostly side
> step the issue of agriculture and recycling of waste.
>
> Agriculture and recycling of waste will be crucial for space habitats.
>
> Unfortunately modern humans have been hijacked by their cities, their
> growth has been so rapid that engineers failed to apply their minds to
> important issues and scaled up blindly. Bombay (Mumbai) had a population of
> less than a million in 1900. The population now is 22 million!
>
> If we cannot construct genuine smart cities on Earth, how are we going to
> construct them in Space?
>
> Regards,
> Selvaraj
>

Arcologies
- three-dimensional, integrated cities that are a single gigantic building - could be explored here on Earth as a precursor of what maybe we will have in the first moderately large habitats. The Wikipedia article in the link has a few real world examples that are kind of going in that way. (And I would also add to the examples the
Burj Khalifa,
which is a kind of vertical city, with residential, corporate, communications and hotel sectors.
On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 1:03 PM, sraj
sraj99@...
[spacesettlers]
<
spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
>

There are a number of U Tube presentations on Smart Cities of the future. I found the presentations somewhat disappointing since they mostly side step the issue of agriculture and recycling of waste.
Agriculture and recycling of waste will be crucial for space habitats.
Unfortunately modern humans have been hijacked by their cities, their growth has been so rapid that engineers failed to apply their minds to important issues and scaled up blindly. Bombay (Mumbai) had a population of less than a million in 1900. The population now is 22 million!
If we cannot construct genuine smart cities on Earth, how are we going to construct them in Space?
Regards,
Selvaraj