Pixelopolis (part II)
- by Pixel
Why do towns have roads?
To allow people to get from one place to another.
What are these places? And isn’t there a more efficient way to do this?
An idea popped into my head fully formed while I was in Tucson last Saturday. ((‘Last’ is relative here. This actually happened several years ago.)) It popped into my head fully formed because the design co•op at the Museum of Contemporary Art put it there. The idea is to create a city with a higher density of population than Tucson. (Which isn’t that hard, all you need is an apartment complex every mile. Tucson’s density in mid-town is 3.4 units per acre.) Why higher density? Because suburbia is worse for the environment than urban centers. The spread of humans is what consumes resources. I mean, would you really drive across town for a meal if you could walk down the street for one? A city with more concentrated resources would be much better for the environment than a suburb.
So I’ve designed my own city. (This is one of the oldest drafts on here. Everything before this was written in 2008, everything after this I just strung together right now.)
Originally, I’d wanted to sketch my ideal town. I’d created hyper-dense residential complexes spread between industrial complexes and commercial areas. Each hub would be connected to all the other hubs through a network of subways, but also there would be Zip cars (temporary rental cars) at each corner. Then my ideas kept changing as I realized that the city needed to be green in color not just in concept– lest the populace grow restless.
But as I kept changing the city, my motivation waned. Now my home state is stealing my idea. And by stealing, I mean that they came up with an idea that very vaguely resembles my own. Oh, well… I’ll nail it next time.
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Why do towns have roads? To allow people to get from one place to another. What are these places? And isn’t there a more efficient way to do this? An idea popped into my head fully formed while I was in Tucson last Saturday. ((‘Last’ is relative here. This actually happened several years ago.)) It…