Supercities On, Under, and Beyond the Earth

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

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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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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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments and Disclaimer

Chapter 1: Seeking Supercities: Surroundings, Settings, and Situations

Chapter 2: Habitats for Inhabitants: Home Is Where the Heart, Hearth, and Habitat Are

Chapter 3: Burrowing Beneath the Earth: Tomorrow’s Troglodytes

Chapter 4: Going Back to the Sea: Back to Our Beginnings

Chapter 5: Settlements Above the Sky: Cities in Space

Chapter 6: The Most Important Color in Supercities: Getting Green

Chapter 7: Bleeding-Edge Building Materials: If You Build It, They Will Come

Chapter 8: Getting Somewhere from Someplace: New Age Transportation

Chapter 9: Priorities for Power: Sustainables That Keep On Giving

Chapter 10: Provisioning the Populace: Resourcing Resources

Chapter 11: Smart City Systems: AI and Automation

Chapter 12: Super Skyscrapers: How High Can We Go?

Chapter 13: New Use for Refuse: Gold in Garbage

Chapter 14: Cautionary Comments on Climate Change: How to Cope

Notes

About the Author

Product details

Published 08 Feb 2020
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 296
ISBN 9781538126721
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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