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I'm just going to copy and paste what I posted in another forum, I want to see what you guys take on this.
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Anonymous wrote:
cities of the future will be much denser than now, and also the agricultural areas!
Me:
I disagree. Like I said above, gigantic vertical and fat buildings holding up to 10 million people with comfort (little to no density) is great for human living.
Lets say America in the future has 1 billion people. To cater for the people you would only need 100 Arcologies.
Each arcology takes approx 5km in diamter.
US's land area is: 9,631,418 km²
5KM x 100 = 500KM
Oh no, US only has 9,630,918 km² of land left.
How much distance can we have between each arcology? Well each Arcology can be approx 9,300 km apart.
Live like a tree not like a weed.
hmm. I was just doing some calculations.
If each "apartment" in the arcology had 12m² of space, and the arcology was 10 km², then you would have approx 416 apartments for every floor.
This would mean, the arcology would need approx 24,000 floors to cater for 1 person per apartment.
If each apartment had a 2.5 meter high roof, then the arcology would be 60,000 meters high (60km). Keep in mind, that Mount Everest is 8,850 meters high
Ideally, the Arcology shouldn't really be higher than 5,000 meters.
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Another calculation
If the Arcology were 100km², and each apartment 12m², then you would have 4,166 apartments per floor.
Now you have only 2,400 floors to cater 10 million people. (remember, this is 1 person per apartment, realistically, it would not be like this, but for the sake of simple calculating, and just to be safe, I will stick to 1 person per apartment).
2400 x 2.5 = 6,000 meters high. Much better, but not quite good enough. And don't forget, for every 10th floor, you would need a "town" floor, this is a floor that has commercial/educational/recreational buildings catering for the people 5 floors above it and 5 floors below it: about 41,660 people. (Which is actually not that bad.) Of course, these "town floors" would need a much higher roof.
There would be approx 963km of space between each arcology.
Now, this is actually quite dense, but consider 2 things: 1 Billion people, and each apartment with only 1 person with considerably large area (12m²) for each apartment.
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Anonymous wrote:
cities of the future will be much denser than now, and also the agricultural areas!
Me:
I disagree. Like I said above, gigantic vertical and fat buildings holding up to 10 million people with comfort (little to no density) is great for human living.
Lets say America in the future has 1 billion people. To cater for the people you would only need 100 Arcologies.
Each arcology takes approx 5km in diamter.
US's land area is: 9,631,418 km²
5KM x 100 = 500KM
Oh no, US only has 9,630,918 km² of land left.
How much distance can we have between each arcology? Well each Arcology can be approx 9,300 km apart.
Live like a tree not like a weed.
hmm. I was just doing some calculations.
If each "apartment" in the arcology had 12m² of space, and the arcology was 10 km², then you would have approx 416 apartments for every floor.
This would mean, the arcology would need approx 24,000 floors to cater for 1 person per apartment.
If each apartment had a 2.5 meter high roof, then the arcology would be 60,000 meters high (60km). Keep in mind, that Mount Everest is 8,850 meters high
Ideally, the Arcology shouldn't really be higher than 5,000 meters.
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Another calculation
If the Arcology were 100km², and each apartment 12m², then you would have 4,166 apartments per floor.
Now you have only 2,400 floors to cater 10 million people. (remember, this is 1 person per apartment, realistically, it would not be like this, but for the sake of simple calculating, and just to be safe, I will stick to 1 person per apartment).
2400 x 2.5 = 6,000 meters high. Much better, but not quite good enough. And don't forget, for every 10th floor, you would need a "town" floor, this is a floor that has commercial/educational/recreational buildings catering for the people 5 floors above it and 5 floors below it: about 41,660 people. (Which is actually not that bad.) Of course, these "town floors" would need a much higher roof.
There would be approx 963km of space between each arcology.
Now, this is actually quite dense, but consider 2 things: 1 Billion people, and each apartment with only 1 person with considerably large area (12m²) for each apartment.
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