People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy. - Batman

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The future needs to be exciting and worth fighting for.

They need to know there’s something better waiting for them on the other side or they’ll never care.

This isn’t the silver bullet solution that will fix all of our problems - but it does create the conditions so that we can fix all of our problems.

Don’t get too caught up with the word perfect.

Here's the basics -

Arcology - “an ideal integrated city contained within a massive vertical structure, allowing maximum conservation of the surrounding environment.”

But it’s self-defeating.

Requiring a “massive vertical structure” means significant and destructive resource extraction + energy intensive construction. So even if you’re conserving your surrounding environment - you’re not conserving the environment as a whole.

Height makes initial cost higher, over time costs higher, takes much longer to build, requires more energy intensive building materials, and requires more specialist labor.

You'll save enough room just decreasing the requirement for vehicles. Less car infrastructure means more room to increase density without relying on height.

Thus - the concept of arcologies without going so tall they defeat their own very purpose.

 

Not actually one building – but with enough overhangs, overpasses, and connections it will often feel like one building.

Typical / Average height 3 stories. Perhaps clusters of 4-12 or perhaps tiered at the ‘end’ of the city to maximize sunlight for all residents.

Personal vision – Biophilic-Brutalism architecture – because it’s square, easy, and you won’t see it anyway - absolutely covered with essentially as much vegetation as possible.

Hempcrete and/or other carbon-sequestering materials. Intelligent and passive designs.

Government funded with strings attached. If not simply done by the government.
Affordable means affordable. It doesn’t mean “not affordable”. I know, complicated.

Developers won't be brought in to do whatever they want. The whole thing will be designed from the ground up.

Permaculture (including water management) sprawl to replace suburban sprawl.

This point seems so obvious to me that I almost forgot to list it. No cars.

 

These cities would be extraordinarily fast to build. You can grow the hemp nearby (almost regardless of where you are..), process on or near site, and throw it up with relatively low skilled labor. Pre-fabrication options exist and are improving as well!

Start growing the hemp in spring. By winter you could have a whole new city.

Compared to the barely-a-high-rise across the street from me that’s been under construction for like two years and is still not finished.

 

There is ALWAYS another option. They're just not always so obvious. Finding a location to build one perfect city turns out to be too difficult? Go to the First Nations in Canada. If they decide they want the first one on their land for them - good fucking luck stopping us from getting it built.

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Threat -
Hijacking by certain billionaires and 'elites' to create near-serfdom cities. Or so called 'smart' cities that monitor your every breath and you have to use three registrations just to walk out of your door and go for a stroll.
No thanks. Built for us by us.

Ditto on allowing them to simply come in and buy everything up afterwards.

 

Virtual City

Might not be necessary but it would be awesome if the idea could be built in something such as the Unreal Engine or Blender, etc. so that people can sort of, kind of experience it before it’s built.

 

Hemp & Hempcrete

Hempcrete isn’t just carbon-neutral. It’s carbon-negative. It sequesters carbon.
While replacing energy intensive building materials which emit carbon – some of them a lot.

Actually Hempcrete sequesters carbon twice in it’s life cycle. The first time just growing the Hemp and again when the Hempcrete is curing. It will continue to slowly sequester carbon for decades.

And that’s hardly it’s only phenomanal quality.

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Purpose Built CSC’s

New Ukraine City

You see even if the war ended today - which it isn't - a massive portion of that nation is pretty much uninhabitable due to land mines and undetonated live munitions.

Oh and the fact that their buildings are no longer buildings and their roads are no longer roads and like 1/3 of the country has basically been cratered.

Reconstruction is going to take a long time. And Ukrainians deserve a better deal than the one they've thus far received.

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The Preservation

Specifically for First Nations to save and revitalize whatever they can of their cultures.

Encourage specializations in cultural restoration.

Music, Art, Crafts, Farming, History, Story Telling, Land Restoration, Semi-Nomadic treks, Archaeology, etc.

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Refugee Cities

Quick and easy to build and with enough built-in agriculture and water management to be self-sufficient or near it.

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Evacuation Cities

Literally partially-empty cities that we can move people to in the event of a natural disaster, to live there until their homes and communities can be rebuilt.

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Hyper Democracy City

Literally everything is a democracy. Your housing and community are funded, built, and managed by the people that live in it. Your workplaces are all co-operatives. If it’s not a co-operative it must Unionized. What else? Partial direct voting?