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- Ultra Compact City Concept
- Cities are our future, but are we building the right future?
- The construction of an Ultra Compact City
- Underground Roads: Breaking the Paradox of Intensification
- Compact, densely populated cities are more productive places to live
- Ultra Compact facilitates mixed usage developments
- Get people to live downtown!
- Ultra Compact would give lower overall costs
- Doing the Engineering
- Policies required to create successful Ultra Compact Cities
- An Ultra Compact City would be a really pleasant place to live
- “All roads underground? Crazy.”
- “This is dystopian Le Corbusier on acid!”
- “If this is so smart, why haven’t anyone done this before?”
- “Wouldn’t underground roads be really expensive?”
- “Where shall we park all the cars?”
- “Wouldn’t the energy consumption of underground roads be enormous?”
- “Wouldn’t the tunnels be unpleasant and polluted?”
- “What about fires or earthquakes?”
- “Doesn’t dense cities create more crime and poverty?”
- Cons of an Ultra Compact City, summarised
- Money Matters
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