This scheme is in fact largely invisible (underground), with just a few new buildings proposed, and you sound like all the other NIMBYs in SF: afraid of change.

Most everyone I know who saw the project, particularly in the context of the one week long competition, thought it was pretty amazing, and it seemed actually backed up by some pretty sound research.

Elizabeth Lin Baldini

Idea – Urban matt network with towers growing out of it – seen it done
ten times better aleady – in architecture school.

The text – sounds like they scrolled through the keywords of last years Scietific American and then merged it in one text-

Lets take a closer look:
Nano tubes – yeah sounds cool – but why on earth would you need something that is smaller as hair for a structure as banal as a tunnel ?

Then fuel producing algea in a tunnel wall – hmm – wouldn´t that be problem if a car crashes into the fuely part … u know fire will be a probelm in the future – right?

The fuel algea is running through all of the city … sounds like a hugh blast to me … but it´s the future the why care somebody will fix it tell then – right?

Why not just propse Stargate Atlantis – would be just as reasoable –
only they had the better tech advisers.
Cheers