Masdar, Abu Dhabi | Deltapolis - The Shape of Cities to Come

THE BRIEF
- “Brownfield” Prototype
- 15 Minute (Bike Ride) Cities
- Civilisation re-invented
- Civilisation’s life-rafts
- Cruise ship analogy
- Eco-Activists & Influencers
- End the Vandemic
- Host countries would benefit
- Nobody is gonna steal such an original idea..!
- ONE – just one prototype, will convince the curmudgeons..
- Pending Bank Closure
- The coming property market crash – you have been warned..!
- The Past is a Future Country (stub)
- Tourism Potential
- UKRAINE CRISIS
- The only way to really change something is to build a new model
- Hotels save energy, time, and waste..
- Civilisation is DYING for Oasis Cities (1)
- Civilisation is DYING for Oasis Cities (2)
Why Pyramids..?
MOTIVE
- Cities need re-inventing
- Commuting – a Crime against Time..!
- Re-claiming the moral high ground
- Mad Cars Disease
- Our Prosperity Predicament
- Climate Change – a leftist plot..?
- “The Housing Crisis”
- (E) Why focus on England..?
- Memo to Al Gore
  - An Inconvenient Truth?
- WMMCC – White Man Made Climate Change
CARMAGEDDON
- (?) Smaller Smarter Spaces (stub)
- (?) SPRAWLing CARcinogenic OBeCities
- Can there be life without cars..?
- Electric Vehicles Pollute too..! (edit)
- Guardianistas agonise over car ownership
- MAD CARS DISEASE
- Moron Mad Cars Disease
- SUV’s are stupid
- Can there be Life after Cars..?
OBeCITIES
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Densification for Dummies..!
- OBeCities and Obesity
- SOD Cities – Sprawling Obese Dystopias
- Sprawl = City Cancer
- Time Pollution
- Why I hate OB-cities
- OBESE CITIES
OAeCITIES
- @ 20pt City Wish List
- @ So what’s INSIDE..?
- @Template for 3rd Millennium Cities
- 3D Cities trump 3D Printing..!
- Cities as homes “writ large”
- Civilisational game-changer
- Islands in the Land
- Not a new idea..?
- Simple Solution to Sprawl
- @a New Civilisation..?
ARCOLOGY
- Alt-Erlaa, an Austrian Arcology?
- Eco Celebs OBLIVIOUS to arcologies
- Les Espaces d’Abraxas (stub)
- Paolo Soleri & Arcosanti
- Pyramid Arcology Pinterest
- Pyramids – the shape of cities to come
ECOLOGY
- @Finessing the impact of Climate Change
- @Food Waste
- @Passive air-conditioning
- @Re-cycling schemes are rubbish..!
- @The Pollution Solution..!
- Global Warming Timeline
- Grand Green Delusions
- Greenfields, Greyfields, Brownfields
- Imagination Laughs at Insulation
- Pinewood Pyramids..?
- Rainwater Harvesting
- Retro-fitting – a Rubbish Solution, literally…
- Waste Heat Wasted
- De-cluttering
ECONOMICS
- @”Economic Growth” – do we really need it..?
- @Perfect places to re-locate enterprises
- Build it, and they will PAY to come and see it..!
- Buy or Rent..? The Debate that Never Was..!
- Commuting is essential to the economy, isn’t it…?
- Death of the “High Street”
- Eating Out saves money, mess and energy
- Small states are simply the best..!
- Taxi Drivers – who needs them..?
- The “Housing Ladder” Obsession
- Universal Basic Income (stub)
- Wages & Living costs
ENERGY
- @Direct Current City?
- @Energy Storage
- District Heating
- Geothermal Energy
- Heat Pump Hype
- Micro Nuclear..?
- OA-City homes will use much less energy
- Pyramid Power exists, and it works..!
  - Solar Windows
- Wind Turbines
  - Building-integrated Wind Turbine
- Wind-farms – do we need them..?
- EEC – Europe’s Energy Crisis (draft)
ESTHETICS
- “Charleyville”
- @ Portmeirion
- @OAeCities will inspire awe
- @Parks for the People
- @Why a Pyramid..?
- Panoramic Views for all…
  - (edit) patios and panoramas
- Skyscrapers are Stupid
- Sylvan Cities
- Why not a Dome..?
- @Manmade scenery is ALWAYS the best..!
COMMUNITY
- “Big Society” stillborn
- @ Birds of a feather flock together
- @Canine Companion City
- @Pensioners Paradise
- Collaborative Communities
- How CAR might work
- No Politicians, No Police, No Problems..!
SOCIETY
- @ A Clean Slate
- @ Moral Dilemma for Wokesters..?
- @ Neighbour wars
- @A coming dark age..?
- @can the Birth Dearth be reversed?
- @Crime and Banishment
- @Sleepover Schools
- Critical Race Theory
- Progressive “Education” – Left, Right, Left, Left, Left….
- Social Engineering…?
- The anti-racist witch-hunt must go on, and on, and on…
- Why not Holiday at Home?
POSSIBILITIES
- @ Education Reformation
- @ Euthanasia Cities
- @”The Wrong Stuff”
- Hail the Prince..!
- Heathrow Airport potential
- Lost Free Cities
- My Kind of Town (editing)
- Seceding from the welfare state
- Semigration & “Brexit Cities”
- Subterranean Farming
- Why not have 100 Hong Kong’s..?
FEASIBILITY
- (edit) Optimum size & population
- @Density made desirable
- @Goods deliveries
- @Will “they” allow it..?
- Cost & Financing Estimates
- Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)
- Right of Admission
- US-style “co-operative” apartment buildings
- Would Oasis Cities be affordable?
- @Community Cars
  - Car sharing and parking
WHERE..?
- Bulgaria
- Paraguay
- Territorial Trading
- Ukraine – opportunity in adversity..?
- Why NOT China..?
- Why NOT Dubai..?
- Would any country actually permit them..?
- Why Singapore..?
- Why England…?
VISIONS
- “The Line”, Saudi Arabia
- #Sky City One – Vertical City (stub)
- Arcosanti – Soleri’s swan-song “Arcology” that never was
- Biosphere 2
- Chengdu “Great City”
- DELTAPOLIS – a genuinely “smart” “Smart-City”
- Floating cities
- Masdar, Abu Dhabi
- ORANIA – South Africa’s all-white township
- Solar Utopian City
- Songdo “Smart City” Korea
- Tianjin eco-city, China
- The Venus Project
- UTOPIA..? Show me yours and I’ll show you mine..!
CRITICISM
- “Forced” labour..?
- @ Crazy Idea
- @Too costly to build
- Its an old idea..!
- its full of Nazi ideas..!
- Small living spaces
- Why are pyramids rare if they are such a good idea..?
- @ Human Hives..!
- @ Unaffordable..?
- Global Warming is leftist NWO propaganda
- @Tempting Terrorist Targets..?
- Other objections
PRO’s ‘n CON’s
- @Disadvantages
- @OA-Cities vs OB-Cities – a very unequal contest..!
WHAT IF..
- Noah’s Ark was a Pyramid..?
- Venus is re-visited
- Space Colonists want to build a city
- Ancient Pyramids built as homage to a lost civilisation..?
- the Tower of Babel was intended as a pyramid-city..?
- Pyramids On Mars..?
QUOTES
- Paolo Soleri Quotes
- Political quotes
- Selected
DIMockery
- (stub) Tories in the left field..?
- Contribution
- Counting Sheeple in the Left Field..!
- Cutting the OMOV Gordion Knot
- Democracy as it should be
- Democracy stifles freedom
- DIMocracy – the worst form of government..?
- Is Democracy a Religion..?
- Diversity that works (draft)
SUNDRY
- #Utopia/Dystopia
- Is space exploration racist..?
- Why is nobody talking about this idea..?
- “Sunrise” Video Intro
- Collaboration
- Terminology

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