So studio today involved a lot of brain storming about what we would want our perfect city to be like and what things we value in our city? Most people in my studio group kept on talking about futuristic cities in the sky as their ideal kinda of city but to me, I really appreciate what the modern city has to offer. I think the feel like big cities give like New York and I dont feel like changing a city completely is the right way to go about it but maybe drastic change is needed?
After thinking about this I decided to research a little about what other people might view as the perfect new city. I stumbled across this one “pyramid city” which if built wil be 12 times bigger than the great pyrmaid of Giza. This city is actaully contained within a metal pyramid shape that has 8 different levels. There will be skyscrapers on this pyramid and residentaial areas, even personal rapid transport. Yes this city may be carbon neutral and provide a new way of looking at the city but I think if people start trying to reinvent the city so it is unrecongizable to society, it will only make our situation worse. Cities are built the way they are for a reason and that is because most of the time they work!
I am very curious to see if cities like this ever come to life and what my own personal city from studio will turn out to be. People have so many ideas of the perfect city but from my point of view, when “utopia” is tried to be created, it usually ends up in failure. People should concentrate on improving what we already have. Not scrapping everything and starting from new.
Jess
(http://www.geekabout.com/2008-01-21-444/arcologists-dream-7-proposed-futuristic-sky-cities.html)
