Minus cars, we could create walkable cities
This is the opening chapter. #cybercommunies
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Minus cars, we could create walkable cities, clusters 6–12,000-person #cyber communities — safe, democratic, just.
There are basics we ignore entirely.
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What is a cyber community? I define it as a city of 6,000–12,000 persons living on no more than four levels in a car-free area of no more than a mile from one side to the other.
One basic need we have is for community.
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A cyber community is spaces connected to a universal matrix. This matrix conducts everything in and everything out. It is the source of the tensile strength needed to hold spaces and bear the weight of things. But it has a certain flexibility which stands it in good stead in the face of severe weather. It enables spaces to be ever-changing, ever-flexible, replicable and easily transported.
A human body needs a skeleton, so does a human community.
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Cyber communities require technological advances comparable to those that have taken place in the automobile industry. Indeed, it is the proposal of this project that the elements of cyber communities become, in effect, the successor to the auto industry, a new stage of manufacturing which can engage all of the new technologies, such as 3-D Printing, that will spring up as the need to create a new global stage becomes more and more obvious.
We need a successor to the automobile.
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Resistant to extreme weather, the cyber community is a city in a walkable environment filled with circles and squares and places to sit and congregate.
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A cyber community does not need stairs. It’s levels can be reached via ramps on foot. There will be some vehicles for deliveries and aid with transport.
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Cyber communities are an evolution of existing cities of any size.
