A tiny pocket city built from scratch next to a crowded urban
center could alleviate some of China’s crowding and pollution problems. A
Chicago-based architectural firm designed a master plan for the city, which
will be built within eight years and host 30,000 families, or roughly 80,000
people.
Great City will cover just
1.3 square kilometers, or 0.5 square miles. This is about 245 football fields
of space. That is not a ton of space for 80,000 people. And that’s the
idea--everything is supposed to be so close that you can walk anywhere within 15
minutes.
Here’s a breakdown of land
use:
•Total site: 800 acres
•Urbanized area: 320 acres
•Buffer zone with natural
landscape: 480 acres
Within the urbanized area:
•15 percent of land reserved
for parks
•60 percent for construction
of buildings
•25 percent for
infrastructure, roads and pedestrian streets
That takes a lot of planning!!! WOW!
ReplyDeleteThis is very interesting. we lived for many years in a town that is 2 square miles. We could walk everywhere within 20 minutes. Riding bikes took less time. Grocery, bank, dr, school, library, etc. It was awesome. I didn't own a car and my husband took the bus to work. However, there isn't 80,000 people living there!!! Not even close that number! So the thought of 1/2 square mile with 80,000 makes me wonder about flushing toilets and hot water!!!
ReplyDeleteI hope they build it using higher standards than they have been...crumbling roads, collapsing bridges.
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