You can only make marginal improvements by tinkering with an existing model – in order to make big improvements you must build a new model which will make the old model totally OBSOLETE..!    Buckminster-Fuller

RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT

OΔsis Cities are the solution to all these issues, and more…. 

• ENERGY INSECURITY – Wind Power – expensive, intermittent, and inefficient – but it is England’s only abundant energy source.
  • OA-Cities will generate most of their power needs onsite from renewable resources, whilst consuming 80% less energy per capita 
• FOOD INSECURITY – 50% of Britain’s food (by value) is imported, and its transportation, storage, and refrigeration, involves an enormous waste of energy.
  • OA-Cities (given a suitable area of adjacent land) will produce much of their own food on-site – especially fruit, vegetables, grains, and dairy.    
• FRESH WATER INSECURITY – Distant reservoirs, water-treatment plants, countless miles of water mains….
  • OA-Cities will need none this expensively extensive infrastructure.  Rainwater will be collected on-site.  It will also re-cycle its grey water.
• WASTE RE-CYCLING – in OB-Cities so-called “re-cycling” is generally an uneconomic “feel-good” exercise.
  • OA-Cities will re-cycle all their water and human and animal waste.  It will also aim to abolish disposable products and re-introduce re-usable food containers, etc., although deposits may be required. 
• MOST DENSELY POPULATED – England is now the most crowded country in Europe, twice the density of Germany and quadruple that of France.
  • OA-Cities cannot change this fact but they will be infinitely safer and more tranquil places in which to live.
• SPRAWLING CITIES – Greater Paris, despite a larger pop’n than London GLC, occupies just half the land area.
  • OA-Cities could, in theory, house London’s population on just 10% of its area, and 50% of that (much reduced) area would be parks, gardens, and woodlands.   
• EXPENSIVE LAND – sprawl and complex road networks (esp. motorways) consume vast swathes of land, thus inflating the price of what is left.
  • OA-Cities will reduce land demand by 90% and with deliveries by rail, roads will eventually become redundant.. 
• EXPENSIVE HOUSING – especially in convenient central areas with short commutes
  • OA-Cities will eliminate commuting – and the waste of time and energy, plus the stress and discomfort.  
• EXPENSIVE PUBLIC TRANSPORT – sprawl increases its cost whilst reducing frequency and efficiency.
  • OA-City modules will be linked by an elevated PRT system of 2 or 4 seater “pods”.
• DESTRUCTION OF THE COUNTRYSIDE (for new housing, shopping centres, road “improvements”, etc)
  • Widespread adoption of OA-Cities will help preserve and beautify the countryside  
• WILDLIFE ANNIHILATION due to road-kill and fragmentation of the countryside by ever more, ever wider, and ever busier roads.
  • Remember how you used to see road-kill hedgehogs all the time, but rarely nowadays?  
  • Thats because they’ve all been killed..!   Well, not quite all, just 97% of them...!
  • OA-Cities – small wildlife and birds will be safe in their surrounding nature sanctuaries