Comments on: Great City by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

By: poipon

poipon — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:43:00 +0000

It’s gonna become a ghost city… there are many others in China, did you know it?

By: Chuck Draper

Chuck Draper — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:33:16 +0000

Not once in the whole article did I see the words food or gardens. Self-sustaining? What a laugh! Quit while you are still behind.

By: Alai

Alai — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:22:00 +0000

1. I don’t know if you can assume that every person (!) has a car. One per household, maybe. In any case, most people leaving the community would take the subway from the center which would go straight to the bigger city.

2. It didn’t say there were no roads. “As a primarily pedestrian city, only half of the road area is allocated to motorized vehicles.”

By: Alai

Alai — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:17:00 +0000

You’re mistaken. 1.3 square kilometers of building area – compare it to the World Trade Center site of 0.065 square kilometers, where 50,000 people worked. The scale of the thing is quite reasonable.

And it’s not really isolated. It would have a train going into the bigger city, so it would have better commuting and traveling connections than lots of suburbs today.

Of course the economy may not be ideal for it right now…

By: Ogier de Beauseant

Ogier de Beauseant — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:19:00 +0000

A lot of hi-tech stuff here. Can it be maintained? What happens if the elevators breakdown? China might want to study Gordon Cullen’s plans done for Alcan that envision low density housing on a train loop that will feature industry, education, recreation etc, situated around the rail line. But it lacks the pizazz of the high rise towers: self contained cities of glass and alloy.