Supercities On, Under, and Beyond the Earth
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Supercities On, Under, and Beyond the Earth

Housing, Feeding, Powering, and Transporting the Urban Crowds of the Future

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eBook - ePub

Supercities On, Under, and Beyond the Earth

Housing, Feeding, Powering, and Transporting the Urban Crowds of the Future

About this book

As more and more people inhabit the Earth and live longer on it, Super Cities will explode with populations of 20, 30, even 100 millions or more. But how will these cities accommodate such masses? Who will build them and where? How can they be sustained and their inhabitants provided for?

Here, Jeff Dondero imagines the super cities of the future and explores the ways in which they can be sustainably built, how transportation will move masses of people without cars, how people will be fed and where waste will go, and how we will move to cities underground, under the sea, in the atmosphere, into space and on to other planets. It describes some of the smart systems for buildings and homes and some of the new ways food and materials enough for such masses will be supplied.

Will super cities be the answer to our bursting population? And if they will, how can we best sustain and supply them? Dondero offers suggestions and a blueprint for the future.

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Information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Year
2020
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781538126721
Topic
Ciencias físicas
Subtopic
Ciencia medioambiental

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments and Disclaimer
  4. Seeking Supercities
  5. Habitats for Inhabitants
  6. Burrowing Beneath the Earth
  7. Going Back to the Sea
  8. Settlements Above the Sky
  9. The Most Important Color in Supercities
  10. Bleeding-Edge Building Materials
  11. Getting Somewhere from Someplace
  12. Priorities for Power
  13. Provisioning the Populace
  14. Smart City Systems
  15. Super Skyscrapers
  16. New Use for Refuse
  17. Cautionary Comments on Climate Change
  18. Notes
  19. Index
  20. About the Author

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