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Q&A Underground City Design: Ventilation

I have already taken into concern renewable sources and several other factors. Ventilation Oxygen easily gets into this underground system via diffusion and likewise CO2 easily goes out. Plants a...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Caters‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Caters‭

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Q&A Mine easily turned into underground nuclear shelter / city

For story reasons I'd like to have a mine which exploited part was turned in to a nuclear shelter, for the city built above. Later, the nuclear shelter was utilized effectively as an district of ci...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Shadow1024‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Shadow1024‭

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Q&A Culturally Correct Ideal City Location

On an Earth-like planet, with the technological and cultural level of ancient Rome: What kind of terrain would be statistically best suited for a powerful city to be located?. The most important ...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Uncle Tres‭

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Q&A Rules for the Development and Spread of Urbanisation

I am creating a map for a story set in a pre-industrial world, and have made the basic physical geography. My main concern now is the development of culture, centred around urbanisation. There ar...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by inappropriateCode‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by inappropriateCode‭

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Q&A What would it be like living underneath a solar thermal tower in the middle of of post-apocalyptic city?

The premise for the the world I'm building is that the Superpowers of Earth lost an interplanetary war with the Colonies of Mars. As a result, most of Earth's governments have either collapsed or h...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by D-Nate‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by D-Nate‭

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Q&A Urban centers for octopuses

I am imagining a water covered planet. There could be a few pieces of land scattered here and there, but >99% of the planet's surface is water. There are various ecosystems and biospheres where ...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by mlurette‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by mlurette‭

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Q&A How can I get a giant banyan tree with mangrove roots?

Here's the set up: in my fantasy world, there is a species of tree similar to Banyan trees. There are several giant versions of these, and smaller ones are quite common. One of the biggest of the...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Thomas Myron‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Thomas Myron‭

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Rigorous Science What is the sack-to-ship ratio?

In the world I'm building, the day lasts 9 of their years. This means that they are almost always on the move, living in blimp-like cities and houses. I've been designing these and I am having trou...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Uncle Tres‭

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Q&A Designing a city around a giant tree?

One of the cities in my world is built on the ground floor beneath and around giant tree. Giant tree cities seem to pop up fairly frequently in science fiction and fantasy, but how would they actua...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by CoolCurry‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by CoolCurry‭

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Q&A Urban Aquatic Sanitation

In a fantasy world (a D&D setting, basically), how would an open underwater town populated by an assortment of mer-people deal with waste disposal? A few details: the town in question is a part...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Magician‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Magician‭

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Q&A Is an "Underwater Metropolis" possible today?

Im sure some are familiar with Bioshock's "Rapture City," a (somewhat) successful underwater city that was able to maintain stability and house an entire population. But, using current technology a...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Nathan Hardy‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Nathan Hardy‭

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Q&A Conditions for a city on a mountain

Cities usually emerge at places where transportation is easy (on a plain, near a sea or a river, etc.) so that people can come and go (facilitating trade) and water and food can be brought to the c...

9 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by martinkunev‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by martinkunev‭

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Q&A How would an unexpected zero-g event affect a city?

I have a city on a 3km-high mountain-top with a population of perhaps 50,000 humans, at a technological level of late renaissance or early steam. Below the city is a coniferous forest with wildlife...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Monty Wild‭

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Q&A What logistics are required to close a city - from the inside?

It is near future, Portland, Oregon, and the residents and neighboring farmers are sick of everyone moving there now that climate change has made it a (even more) fabulous place to live. In an ext...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Mikey‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Mikey‭

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Q&A City in a hollow tree

As a tree grows new layers are added each year so that the trunk expands in radius. The living part of the tree is a relatively thin layer on the outside just beneath the bark, and the wood further...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Any reasons for a primal aquatic race to build land-based villages?

Imagine a sentient species with these attributes: not very advanced (think primal tribes) can breathe underwater good swimmers feed on seafood (fish, algae) live in a high fantasy world with orcs...

15 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by enkryptor‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by enkryptor‭

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Q&A Food sources for an undergound city

Lets assume a city exists underground, either in natural caves or synthetic tunnels. Are there any food sources underground, and what kind of population can they support?

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by droid‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by droid‭

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Q&A Vertical city - effects on climate?

Picture, in a near future, that we build cities vertically rather than horizontally. Need a new city block? Add another few floors. Disregard for the moment any physical construction problems this ...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Thomas Myron‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Thomas Myron‭

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Q&A What would happen if a major city flooded?

I've read several books where a major city, often New York City, floods. People live in the skyscrappers, sometimes for years afterwards. What would it be like if a city full of high skyscrapers wa...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by PearsonArtPhoto‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by PearsonArtPhoto‭

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Q&A How can my large, urban trophy float?

The city - a modern, sterile 'utopia' (with the undercurrents of government control and suppression, of course), that can be current tech, or future tech so long as the day-to-day lives are in curr...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Mikey‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Mikey‭

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Q&A A city of Sand...stone

Picture this...the sun sets over an orangish red desert, in the distance you see a town rising from three hills, a river snaking between them. The buildings rise from the hills and spread between ...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by James‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by James‭

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Q&A What are the design considerations for my underwater settlement?

I have made my billions here in the present day, and I'd like to have a permanent underwater settlement. It is about as useless as the Mars One mission (yes, I went there), but some people may c...

7 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Mikey‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Mikey‭

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Q&A Desert City - agriculture and other specifics

I need an advice about creating an independent city (a city state) in the middle of a desert (the stony kind of wasteland). I will scratch what I have in my mind so far and I would be glad to hear ...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Smajl‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Smajl‭

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Rigorous Science What power generation method is the best to sustain a hovering city?

The Technology We're in the year 2250 on an Earth-like planet. All the space on the earth's surface has been used up by the population of 15 billion, so we're moving into the air. Cities, along wi...

13 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Rapid Planetary Colonization: How to Build a City, Fast

In a futuristic sci-fi world (galaxy?) I'm building, warfare has become highly regulated and commercialized. When two corporations meet on a deserted planet to do battle, they're followed by all so...

9 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by DaaaahWhoosh‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by DaaaahWhoosh‭

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Q&A A city to last ten million years: Maintenance

See A city to last ten million years: Construction for background. Third question on Forevertown: What are the key issues for maintaining the physical infrastructure of a low-tech city over ten m...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by Royal Canadian Bandit‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Royal Canadian Bandit‭

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Q&A Uproot, Lift Up and Replant a City

It finally happened. The inhabitants of Metropolis, the capital of Our Nation, have finally had enough of the swampy lands, suffocating summers, freezing winters, spring floods, risk of surprise in...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭

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Q&A A city to last ten million years: Location

See A city to last ten million years: Construction for background. Second question: What would be the best choice of site on the planet's surface? Assume the planet is more or less Earthlike in i...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Royal Canadian Bandit‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Royal Canadian Bandit‭

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Q&A How soon will the first underwater cities be built?

Considering that the oceans are rising (and that humans don't seem too keen on doing anything about it) and that population is growing exponentially, is it plausible to imagine that in a not too di...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Sheraff‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Sheraff‭

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Q&A Where to place industry in a megastructure?

I am currently designing a megastructure which is supposed to provide living- and workplaces for about 100.000 people. It is supposed to be designed in a way that it provides everything the inhabit...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Philipp‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Philipp‭

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Q&A Why would a complete urbanized city-planet exist?

Related: How would a completely urbanized city-planet support its population? How a completely urbanized city-planet be maintained? How would the global environment of a completely urbanized city...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by neph‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by neph‭