Leap Frogging Transportation

Networks like the tube in London moved its citizens to places that they did not necessarily want to go- these electrical layouts and images laid the footprint for all new rail transportation networks thereafter. Two-dimensional circuits could not make reversible transitions when available land diminished and led engineers to devise new methods of bringing people to places that they were not naturally associated within their spectrum.

Without a formidable agreement between the necessity of a journey and the travel time saved by utilizing more efficient means of transportation, it seems as though unless we are building a new city up from the marshes, it is useless to create new, vast layers of automation. People should not have to be moved as to satisfy their means for unique exploration or research park exchange. Why not create walkable highways with sidewalk exits in existing cities where rooftop gardens and terraces threaten?

Building on where most populations will live, are busses the only present compromise that we can make to ensure that the citizens are mobile and our circuits efficient?

Dongtan, China, the new home of the public transport ideal

"Design was very trial-and-error," Gutierrez says. "The only thing we knew was that we wanted to connect things, to create virtuous cycles." [wired]

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Posted: September 20th, 2007
at 10:27pm by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: green,whips,architecture,design

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