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“Brownfield” Prototype
15 Minute (Bike Ride) Cities
A world without Wheelie Bins
Cruise ship comparison
Eco-Activists & Influencers
Elons Ago and Far Away – Musk ‘n Mars (semi-satire)
Real change would be a new model city
MaD Bank is Bankrupt
ONE PROTOTYPE will silence the sceptics..!
The coming property market crash – you have been warned..!
OA-City host countries would benefit
The Smartest Smart-city
Nobody is gonna steal such an original idea..!
Tourism Potential
UKRAINE CRISIS
Hotels save energy, time, and waste..
MOTIVE (9)
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2D sprawl cities – obsolete as a laundry mangle
Commuting – a Crime against Time..!
Reclaiming the Moral High Ground
Mad Cars Disease
The Prosperity Predicament
Climate Change – a leftist plot..?
“The Housing Crisis”
Why focus on England..? (Draft)
Memo to Al Gore
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An Inconvenient Truth?
CARMAGEDDON (10)
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*Smaller Smarter Spaces
Better Public Transport
Do we really need cars..?
Electric Vehicles Pollute too..! (edit)
Guardianista agonising about car ownership
MAD CARS DISEASE
Moron Mad Cars Disease
SPRAWLing CARcinogenic OBeCities
SUV means “Stupid Un-necessary Vehicle” (stub)
Can there be Life after Cars..?
OBeCITIES (9)
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A Tale of Two Cities
City Hate List
Densification for Dummies..!
Obesity and OBeCities – is there a link..?
SOD Cities – Sprawling Obese Dystopias
Death by Sprawl
Sprawl = City Cancer
Time Pollution
Why I hate OB-cities
OAeCITIES (10)
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3D Cities laugh at 3D Printing..!
3rd Millennium Cities
Cities as homes “writ large”
City Wish List
Civilisational game-changer
INSIDE look
Islands in the Land
Simple Solution to Sprawl
a New Civilisation..?
Not a new idea..?
ARCOLOGY (9)
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Alt-Erlaa, an Austrian Arcology, almost..
Eco Celebs OBLIVIOUS to arcologies
Impossibly Gigantic Buildings*
Les Espaces d’Abraxas (stub)
More Pyramidal Propaganda (draft)
Paolo Soleri & Arcosanti
Paolo Soleri Quotes
Pyramidal Arcology (copied from Pinterest)
Pyramids – the Shape of Cities to Come..?
ECOLOGY (19)
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Earthships (stub)
End the Vandemic
Finessing the impact of Climate Change
Global Warming Timeline
Grand Green Delusions
Greenfields, Greyfields, Brownfields
Waste Heat Wasted
Imagination Laughs at Insulation
The Pollution Solution..!
Retro-fitting – a Rubbish Solution, literally…
McCloud Cuckoo Land
Time Pollution
Passive air-conditioning
Food Waste
De-cluttering
Pyramids of Pinewood..?
Time Pollution
Rainwater Harvesting
Re-cycling schemes are rubbish..!
ECONOMICS (16)
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@”Economic Growth” – do we really need it..?
We don’t need “Growth” – we need “De-growth” (stub)
Buy or Rent..? The Debate that Never Was..!
Universal Basic Income (stub)
The “Housing Ladder” Obsession
“Working” from Home
Wages & Living costs
De-Growth (stub)
Build it, and they will PAY to come and see it..!
Commuting is “Time Pollution”
Taxi Drivers – who needs them..?
Death of the “High Street”
Eating Out saves money, mess and energy
MaD Bank is Bankrupt
Perfect places to re-locate enterprises
Small states are simply the best..!
ENERGY (12)
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AC vs DC
District Heating – another no-brainer
Energy Storage*
Geothermal Energy
Heat Pump Hype
Micro Nuclear..?
OA-City homes save energy
Poo Power (stub)
Pyramid Power that really works..!
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Solar Windows
Wind Turbines
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Building-integrated Wind Turbine
Wind-farms – do we really need them..?
EEC – Europe’s Energy Crisis (draft)
ESTHETICS (10)
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@ Portmeirion
OA-Cities will inspire awe
Panoramic Views for all…
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Patios and panoramas
Parks ‘n Pyramids
Poundbury has no Pound Shops
Skyscrapers are Stupid
Sylvan Cities
Why a Pyramid..?
Why not a Dome..?
Manmade scenery is simply the best..! Better than all the rest..!
COMMUNITY (7)
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@Pensioners Paradise
Birds of a Feather (1)
Birds of a Feather (2)
Canine Companion City
CAP – Community Assistance Pledge
Collaborative Communities
No Politicians, No Police, No Problems..!
SOCIETY (13)
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@ Neighbour wars
A coming dark age..?
Cameron’s stillborn “Big Society”
Can the Birth Dearth be reversed?
Crime and Banishment
Critical Race Theory
Holiday at Home?
Moral Dilemma for Lefties..?
Progressive “Education” – Left, Right, Left, Left, Left….
Sleepover Schools
Social Engineering…?
Starting Anew
The anti-racist witch-hunt must go on, and on, and on…
DIMocracy (12)
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Catalyst for democratic reform..?
Diversity that works (draft)
Counting Sheeple in the Left Field..!
Contribution
Cutting the OMOV Gordion Knot
Democracy stifles freedom
Democracy as it should be
DIMocracy – the worst form of government..?
DIMocracy quotes
Is Democracy a Religion..?
Tories in the left field..?
Vote for Monarchy (its better than democracy..!)
POSSIBILITIES (12)
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@ Education Reformation
Euthanasia Cities
Hail the Prince..!
Heathrow Airport site potential
Hong Kong’s by the hundred..?
My Kind of Town (editing)
New Free Cities
Seceding from the welfare state
Semigration & “Brexit Cities”
Subterranean Farming
The Wrong Stuff – Dysgenics by Default
The Right Stuff – who doesn’t want it..?
PRACTICALITIES (11)
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@Density made desirable
*Known Unknowns – Building Costs & Financing Speculations
Goods deliveries
Optimum size & population (incomplete)
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)
Right of Admission
US-style “co-operative” apartment buildings
Will “they” allow it..?
Would Oasis Cities be affordable?
Community Cars
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Car sharing and parking
WHERE..? (9)
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Territorial Trading
Ukraine – opportunity in adversity..?
Which countries might allow Oasis-Cities on its territory..?
Why Bulgaria..?
Why NOT China..?
Why NOT Dubai..?
Why Paraguay..?
Why Singapore..?
Why England…?
VISIONS (12)
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“The Line”, Saudi Arabia
Arcosanti – Soleri’s swan-song
Biosphere 2
Floating cities
Masdar, Abu Dhabi
ORANIA – South Africa’s all-white township
Pyramid Pics
Songdo “Smart City” Korea
White Elephants
DELTAPOLIS – the smartest “Smart-City”
The Venus Project
UTOPIA..? Show me yours and I’ll show you mine..!
CRITICISM (11)
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“Forced” labour..?
Full of Nazi ideas..?!
If pyramids are a good idea, why are they so rare..?
Its a Crazy Idea
Its an old idea..!
Too costly to build..?
Human Hives..?
Unaffordable..?
is Global Warming leftist NWO propaganda..?
Tempting Terrorist Targets..?
Other objections
PRO’s ‘n CON’s (2)
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Disadvantages
OA-Cities vs OB-Cities – was there ever a more unequal contest..?
CIVILISATION (5)
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Civilisation re-invented
Civilisation’s life-rafts
The Past is a Future Country
Civilisation is DYING for Oasis Cities (1)
Civilisation is DYING for Oasis Cities (2)
SPECULATIONS (8)
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A habitable Venus..?
Could Space Exploration be RACIST..?
Elons Ago and Far Away – Musk ‘n Mars.
Was Noah’s Ark a Pyramid..?
In the year 2525…
Ancient Pyramids as homage to a lost civilisation..?
Was the Tower of Babel intended to be a pyramid-city..?
Pyramids On Mars..?
SUNDRY (5)
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#Utopia/Dystopia
Media comments section retorts
Random musings
Collaboration
Terminology
NON-PUBLIC
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Publishers Agents in UK
“Sunrise” Video Intro
Book Structure
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PART 1 – MOTIVATION
PART 2 – CONCEPT
PART 3 – ECOLOGY & ECONOMY
PART 4 – COMMUNITY & SOCIETY
PART 5 – PRACTICALITIES
PART 7 – CRITICISM & OPPOSITION
PART 8 – WHO, WHERE, WHY..?
PART 9 – EXTRA STUFF
QUOTES
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Political quotes
Selected
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Home
THE BRIEF (16)
Menu Toggle
“Brownfield” Prototype
15 Minute (Bike Ride) Cities
A world without Wheelie Bins
Cruise ship comparison
Eco-Activists & Influencers
Elons Ago and Far Away – Musk ‘n Mars (semi-satire)
Real change would be a new model city
MaD Bank is Bankrupt
ONE PROTOTYPE will silence the sceptics..!
The coming property market crash – you have been warned..!
OA-City host countries would benefit
The Smartest Smart-city
Nobody is gonna steal such an original idea..!
Tourism Potential
UKRAINE CRISIS
Hotels save energy, time, and waste..
MOTIVE (9)
Menu Toggle
2D sprawl cities – obsolete as a laundry mangle
Commuting – a Crime against Time..!
Reclaiming the Moral High Ground
Mad Cars Disease
The Prosperity Predicament
Climate Change – a leftist plot..?
“The Housing Crisis”
Why focus on England..? (Draft)
Memo to Al Gore
Menu Toggle
An Inconvenient Truth?
CARMAGEDDON (10)
Menu Toggle
*Smaller Smarter Spaces
Better Public Transport
Do we really need cars..?
Electric Vehicles Pollute too..! (edit)
Guardianista agonising about car ownership
MAD CARS DISEASE
Moron Mad Cars Disease
SPRAWLing CARcinogenic OBeCities
SUV means “Stupid Un-necessary Vehicle” (stub)
Can there be Life after Cars..?
OBeCITIES (9)
Menu Toggle
A Tale of Two Cities
City Hate List
Densification for Dummies..!
Obesity and OBeCities – is there a link..?
SOD Cities – Sprawling Obese Dystopias
Death by Sprawl
Sprawl = City Cancer
Time Pollution
Why I hate OB-cities
OAeCITIES (10)
Menu Toggle
3D Cities laugh at 3D Printing..!
3rd Millennium Cities
Cities as homes “writ large”
City Wish List
Civilisational game-changer
INSIDE look
Islands in the Land
Simple Solution to Sprawl
a New Civilisation..?
Not a new idea..?
ARCOLOGY (9)
Menu Toggle
Alt-Erlaa, an Austrian Arcology, almost..
Eco Celebs OBLIVIOUS to arcologies
Impossibly Gigantic Buildings*
Les Espaces d’Abraxas (stub)
More Pyramidal Propaganda (draft)
Paolo Soleri & Arcosanti
Paolo Soleri Quotes
Pyramidal Arcology (copied from Pinterest)
Pyramids – the Shape of Cities to Come..?
ECOLOGY (19)
Menu Toggle
Earthships (stub)
End the Vandemic
Finessing the impact of Climate Change
Global Warming Timeline
Grand Green Delusions
Greenfields, Greyfields, Brownfields
Waste Heat Wasted
Imagination Laughs at Insulation
The Pollution Solution..!
Retro-fitting – a Rubbish Solution, literally…
McCloud Cuckoo Land
Time Pollution
Passive air-conditioning
Food Waste
De-cluttering
Pyramids of Pinewood..?
Time Pollution
Rainwater Harvesting
Re-cycling schemes are rubbish..!
ECONOMICS (16)
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@”Economic Growth” – do we really need it..?
We don’t need “Growth” – we need “De-growth” (stub)
Buy or Rent..? The Debate that Never Was..!
Universal Basic Income (stub)
The “Housing Ladder” Obsession
“Working” from Home
Wages & Living costs
De-Growth (stub)
Build it, and they will PAY to come and see it..!
Commuting is “Time Pollution”
Taxi Drivers – who needs them..?
Death of the “High Street”
Eating Out saves money, mess and energy
MaD Bank is Bankrupt
Perfect places to re-locate enterprises
Small states are simply the best..!
ENERGY (12)
Menu Toggle
AC vs DC
District Heating – another no-brainer
Energy Storage*
Geothermal Energy
Heat Pump Hype
Micro Nuclear..?
OA-City homes save energy
Poo Power (stub)
Pyramid Power that really works..!
Menu Toggle
Solar Windows
Wind Turbines
Menu Toggle
Building-integrated Wind Turbine
Wind-farms – do we really need them..?
EEC – Europe’s Energy Crisis (draft)
ESTHETICS (10)
Menu Toggle
@ Portmeirion
OA-Cities will inspire awe
Panoramic Views for all…
Menu Toggle
Patios and panoramas
Parks ‘n Pyramids
Poundbury has no Pound Shops
Skyscrapers are Stupid
Sylvan Cities
Why a Pyramid..?
Why not a Dome..?
Manmade scenery is simply the best..! Better than all the rest..!
COMMUNITY (7)
Menu Toggle
@Pensioners Paradise
Birds of a Feather (1)
Birds of a Feather (2)
Canine Companion City
CAP – Community Assistance Pledge
Collaborative Communities
No Politicians, No Police, No Problems..!
SOCIETY (13)
Menu Toggle
@ Neighbour wars
A coming dark age..?
Cameron’s stillborn “Big Society”
Can the Birth Dearth be reversed?
Crime and Banishment
Critical Race Theory
Holiday at Home?
Moral Dilemma for Lefties..?
Progressive “Education” – Left, Right, Left, Left, Left….
Sleepover Schools
Social Engineering…?
Starting Anew
The anti-racist witch-hunt must go on, and on, and on…
DIMocracy (12)
Menu Toggle
Catalyst for democratic reform..?
Diversity that works (draft)
Counting Sheeple in the Left Field..!
Contribution
Cutting the OMOV Gordion Knot
Democracy stifles freedom
Democracy as it should be
DIMocracy – the worst form of government..?
DIMocracy quotes
Is Democracy a Religion..?
Tories in the left field..?
Vote for Monarchy (its better than democracy..!)
POSSIBILITIES (12)
Menu Toggle
@ Education Reformation
Euthanasia Cities
Hail the Prince..!
Heathrow Airport site potential
Hong Kong’s by the hundred..?
My Kind of Town (editing)
New Free Cities
Seceding from the welfare state
Semigration & “Brexit Cities”
Subterranean Farming
The Wrong Stuff – Dysgenics by Default
The Right Stuff – who doesn’t want it..?
PRACTICALITIES (11)
Menu Toggle
@Density made desirable
*Known Unknowns – Building Costs & Financing Speculations
Goods deliveries
Optimum size & population (incomplete)
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)
Right of Admission
US-style “co-operative” apartment buildings
Will “they” allow it..?
Would Oasis Cities be affordable?
Community Cars
Menu Toggle
Car sharing and parking
WHERE..? (9)
Menu Toggle
Territorial Trading
Ukraine – opportunity in adversity..?
Which countries might allow Oasis-Cities on its territory..?
Why Bulgaria..?
Why NOT China..?
Why NOT Dubai..?
Why Paraguay..?
Why Singapore..?
Why England…?
VISIONS (12)
Menu Toggle
“The Line”, Saudi Arabia
Arcosanti – Soleri’s swan-song
Biosphere 2
Floating cities
Masdar, Abu Dhabi
ORANIA – South Africa’s all-white township
Pyramid Pics
Songdo “Smart City” Korea
White Elephants
DELTAPOLIS – the smartest “Smart-City”
The Venus Project
UTOPIA..? Show me yours and I’ll show you mine..!
CRITICISM (11)
Menu Toggle
“Forced” labour..?
Full of Nazi ideas..?!
If pyramids are a good idea, why are they so rare..?
Its a Crazy Idea
Its an old idea..!
Too costly to build..?
Human Hives..?
Unaffordable..?
is Global Warming leftist NWO propaganda..?
Tempting Terrorist Targets..?
Other objections
PRO’s ‘n CON’s (2)
Menu Toggle
Disadvantages
OA-Cities vs OB-Cities – was there ever a more unequal contest..?
CIVILISATION (5)
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Civilisation re-invented
Civilisation’s life-rafts
The Past is a Future Country
Civilisation is DYING for Oasis Cities (1)
Civilisation is DYING for Oasis Cities (2)
SPECULATIONS (8)
Menu Toggle
A habitable Venus..?
Could Space Exploration be RACIST..?
Elons Ago and Far Away – Musk ‘n Mars.
Was Noah’s Ark a Pyramid..?
In the year 2525…
Ancient Pyramids as homage to a lost civilisation..?
Was the Tower of Babel intended to be a pyramid-city..?
Pyramids On Mars..?
SUNDRY (5)
Menu Toggle
#Utopia/Dystopia
Media comments section retorts
Random musings
Collaboration
Terminology
NON-PUBLIC
Menu Toggle
Publishers Agents in UK
“Sunrise” Video Intro
Book Structure
Menu Toggle
PART 1 – MOTIVATION
PART 2 – CONCEPT
PART 3 – ECOLOGY & ECONOMY
PART 4 – COMMUNITY & SOCIETY
PART 5 – PRACTICALITIES
PART 7 – CRITICISM & OPPOSITION
PART 8 – WHO, WHERE, WHY..?
PART 9 – EXTRA STUFF
QUOTES
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Political quotes
Selected
SUNDRY (5)
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