Arcology proposal for Boston
Jan. 15th, 2010 06:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dsrtaoIf that doesn't get James Nicoll's attention, I don't know what will. Photographic evidence of Orson Scott Card torturing a kitten, maybe.
Anyway. an apparently serious design proposal (though I don't think there are any backers, yet) to build a floating concrete arcology in Boston Harbor:
http://www.archboston.org/community/showthread.php?t=3208
Some initial questions spring to my mind:
- What about the traffic when people want to, I don't know, leave paradise to visit their undeserving friends? Where will they park their cars?
- Will any poor people be allowed to live there? Anyone middle-class who has, say, a job that isn't inside the arcology?
- Will this be a gated community, or can mortals walk around inside to worship the gods?
- Is it designed to fold up the drawbridge, hoist anchor and sail away in the event of zombie plague?
- Thirty years afterwards, will anybody be able to escape?
Anyway. an apparently serious design proposal (though I don't think there are any backers, yet) to build a floating concrete arcology in Boston Harbor:
http://www.archboston.org/community/showthread.php?t=3208
Some initial questions spring to my mind:
- What about the traffic when people want to, I don't know, leave paradise to visit their undeserving friends? Where will they park their cars?
- Will any poor people be allowed to live there? Anyone middle-class who has, say, a job that isn't inside the arcology?
- Will this be a gated community, or can mortals walk around inside to worship the gods?
- Is it designed to fold up the drawbridge, hoist anchor and sail away in the event of zombie plague?
- Thirty years afterwards, will anybody be able to escape?
