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The Bionic Tower (Spanish: Torre Biónica; Chinese: 仿生塔) was an imagined vertical city, designed for human habitation by Spanish architects Eloy Celaya, María Rosa Cervera and Javier Gómez. [1] [2] It would have a main tower 1,228 metres (4,029 ft) high, with 300 stories housing approximately 100,000 people.
Iconic vertical cityscape of New York City. The term vertical comes from the late Latin word “verticalis” meaning “overhead” and the Latin “vertex” meaning “highest point”. [7] Verticalization is used interchangeably with Manhattanization, vertical urbanization or urbanisms, and vertical gentrification in many research studies.
Times Squared 3015 is a proposed design concept for a vertical city, more than a mile tall tower, located in New York City in the United States.. It was not a serious business proposal, but was an entrant in a 2015 architectural design contest. [1]
Vertical city Mixed use United States New York City: 321 Sky Mile Tower: 1.7 km (5,577 ft) [21] 2015 Skyscraper Mixed use Japan Tokyo: Would serve as a dam and supply water to its 55,000 residents. 421 Xtopia 1.614 km (5,295 ft) 2010 Skyscraper Multiple China Shanghai: Xtopia is a concept building for a 300-floor high-rise self-contained community.
Artist's conception of the outdoor interior space within The Line. The Line is eventually planned to be 170 kilometres (110 miles) long. [3] [13] [14] It could stretch from the Red Sea approximately to the city of Tabuk and could have nine million residents, resulting in an average population density of 260,000 per square kilometre (670,000/sq mi). [5]
Buckminster Fuller with a drawing of his domed city proposal. Buckminster Fuller proposed the Old Man River's City project, a domed city with a capacity of 125,000, as a solution to the housing problems in East St. Louis, Illinois. Paolo Soleri proposed later solutions, and coined the term "arcology". [5]
Vertical City is a planned high-rise, mixed use skyscraper. As of March 2023, the building is projected to have 25 stories, a mixture of commercial, startup, and residential spaces, and cost ₹ 163 crore. [13]
Superficially at odds with the low-rise, low-density ideals of the Decentrists, Le Corbusier presented his vertical city, with its 1,200 inhabitants per acre, as a way of extending the primary Garden City concepts – the super-block, regimented neighborhood planning, easy automobile access, and the insertion of large grassy expanses to keep ...