The cities will almost be like cites of today but have no roads and no motor vehicle traffic. The cities will be built to accommodate large and small families. All houses would be built space and energy efficient and may be built as many stories tall as desired. The vehicles that will move the people around the city are called Hun Pods and they will use the same principles as the magnetically powered trains by the Sandia National Laboratories. They would also be on a circuit connected to the computerized grid layout of the city so they would not collide in to each other, be able to move in the fastest way possible from point A to point B, and be able to be controlled at any time. They would be built under ground to not take up viable plant life growing room and to not interfere with pedestrians or bicycle traffic.

Also along the underground tracks of the Hun Pods, electricity, water, waste water, and trash could transported to their respective places. Access points where the vehicles submerge from the sub train would be built where garages and driveways and parking spaces of today are. They will be surrounded by a small fence or building so pedestrians don’t wonder into these access points. Every where that roads would be built in a traditional city on the top of the ground crops of plants would be grown, animals raised, and trails for humans to walk and bicycle. Since no roads are in the city fire hydrants and hoses will be placed everywhere necessary in the city to protect the whole city from fire and be used to water the vegetation. Motorized vehicles will rather have to be sold or stored outside the city.

The objectives of the idea is to create a city that is self sufficient and self contained by food distribution, public transportation, electricity, water distribution, waste management, and security. Main electricity will be attained by placing solar panels and windmills everywhere possible in the city which is used to power the city and sell excess to outside the city. Waste, Sewer, Water Purification, and Recycling and disposal centers will need to be built as soon as possible. There will be a 30 ft. fence surrounding the city to protect from attack and trafficking of illegal contraband. At certain sections of fence there would be a port where goods from outside the city would be dropped off by semi trucks or trains. They would be downloaded inspected and distributed thru the underground tracks. The fence will have monitored and controlled gates for admittance to the city. There will be an office building with large dirt parking lot in front of it. Potential residents would drive or be dropped off and apply for housing and employment inside the city or provide documentation of outside employment. Accommodations will be made for retired and disabled people. Residence entry points would be designed where each person would have to use there own badge to enter. No more than one person could enter with one badge. Visitors must get visitor badges at the office. All residents must have background checks before becoming a resident and if offences committed must take classes that correspond with the crime to “learn from their mistakes” and then be allowed in the city if current employment and current higher education enrolment had. Residence entry points will make it so that everyone in the city to have to use identification cards that will have a picture and other relevant information on it, a GPS device for tracking, and a microchip that grants access to the city, activates the Hun Pods, and will be the key to your house. It will also correspond to your finger print so that only you can use your badge. It makes cities have less crime being able to control everything that goes in and out of the city. Everyone has safety, shelter, clothing, food, and water.

The fence surrounding the city will be on both sides of and lie parallel to the circular tracks of the above ground magnetic train that will be connected to the underground Hun Pod Tracks. This would make safe expansion possible and easy. Just build a track, connect to the initial system, load the train, make the fence, remove dirt for the laying of the Hun Pod circuit layout, lay the under ground tracks, encase the tracks, cover with dirt, ,make the access ports, build the houses, build the business district, and any other things required for the city. For expansion for today’s existing cities, vehicles, residents, weapons and other possessions needed have to be removed during remodel. Fences and outer above ground train would be lain, roads would be dug up, tracks laid, encased under the ground, access points made everywhere necessary, and plants planted, solar panels and windmills placed where the roads used to be. I suggest that the business district should be composed of a Wal-Mart, Subway, and McDonalds at least. Clothing, furniture, home improvement store, and any other company that wants to provide goods for the city also could be built. Universities and lower grade schools should also be built, and High school diploma mandatory for everyone and assistance for learning mandatory. Education is the key to the world and ignorance is the destruction. The Police department in the city weapons would be locked up and officers would only carry a stun gun, pepper spray, and handcuffs. The people in the safe cities could leave them freely but would have trouble getting back in the city if they lost their ID badge and would have to go to the office. A lost fee would be charged to make a duplicate if unable to locate and fingerprints required for verification. The vehicles left outside the city will be monitored all times and recommended to the owners to be sold. Also there will be 360 degrees surveillance of the whole city with gun torrents attached to each individual camera to protect it from possible terorist. I believe that this is not only a dream, but imagination, hope, idea, and one day reality.

Will we all be transported by Hun Pods, live in a nice house, have food and water, have employment, have higher education available, live peacefully, have freedom, and protection? Everyone deserves heaven on earth.

I know my idea is somewhat crazy and may have many flaws but it is a start. I would like to find a way to begin this project. Or at least to colaborate it with other people to perfect it. I wrote it about a year ago so it needs updated to reflect my new knowledge and experiences. As with everything it would need money to buy the land and materials to build this city.

It’s all about “locality”, or as the first commenter said: “place”.

Surround ourselves with the people we care about in the place where we live, or at least that we can walk (or bike) to.

Cheers,
Randall.

Still the sense of community being linked to place is rather elusive the way things are in society at the moment. I’d like to be in a place where I had at least some interaction with locals because it just happens that locals are people you’d go to for your essentials rather than a big shop in the next town.

It just occurred to me that the visualisations above might be too centered on the individual, where in fact what we’re looking at is a networked set of interactions, and often people keep relationships going via intermediaries relaying information, so in fact it isn’t a case of “managing” a list of associations, rather it often happens without your personal effort because another person is acting as the “glue”.

human “glouns” in your quantum theory of relationships there. This is probably quite important in my world, as I can think of very obvious people in my life that have this kind of role.

It’s amazing how well such a simple approach works, even though the range of things the animal may be sensing could be very broad. If nothing was going to eat you and you run like crazy, you use a bit of energy–little loss. If something was going to eat you and you fail to run like crazy, you get eaten–huge loss. We can use more sophisticated approaches precisely because we are not wild animals, and so our control over our environment is such that it’s incredibly unlikely as a rule that anything is going to eat us. As soon as the situation becomes more stark, though, we have a tendency to fall back on simple instinctive rules of thumb with proven track records. One unfortunate side effect is that it’s not that hard to give people the impression that the situation is more stark when in fact it is not, leading them to apply fight-or-flight reactions to complex international politics, say.

But I do agree with graywyvern–not everyone is the same. There do seem to be people who really prefer having a large number of not-so-close relationships, and other people who absolutely cannot stand dealing with large numbers of acquaintance-level relationships. There are party people and run-screaming-from-parties people. So while some people probably have large groups of acquaintances because they haven’t built up the intimacy and trust with a smaller group to be able to move the rest to orbits further out, others I don’t think it’s so–juggling wider groups is really their natural or preferred state.

I suspect the same is true of polyamory, including non-exclusive overlapping polyamory. Some “we” may be naturally suited to it, perhaps not realizing it because of cultural overlay. I’ve certainly known some people who really seem suited to that sort of relationship. Other “we” probably really isn’t. Personally, all issues of exclusivity, whether jealousy is innate or culturally mandated etc. aside, I’m just not sociable enough to be able to handle multiple intimate partnerships at once. I mean, you talk about most people having 5-7 really close relationships that take up all of their social time. Then you consider an ideal involving 3-7 amorous ones, which either leaves between 0 and 2 for family and friends or implies overload. Plus, all the amorous ones are in flux and leading to other complex connections. I’d go nuts. If I could jettison all my cultural baggage (and get some other cultural baggage appropriate to the project), I could maybe handle two. Maybe. For a few months at a time. For me, I think the “lots of work” you point to would just be too much, the extra support you describe just not worth it–to me, some time to reflect on my own is extremely important, while I only need so much support network. Different people’s needs and tradeoffs are different.

Janene talks about the importance of place, and of some kind of unified community in which relationships in different spheres overlap. I’m not sure how important I think that is. I have a group of friends I get together with one evening a week to indulge a common interest. I’m pretty close to them. We trust each other, we know that we’d be there for each other if we really needed help although we’re all the sort who would be hesitant to ask. I don’t normally see them in any other context. I guess I’d be happy if I did run into them at other times, but it’s not important–we don’t need that to be close. I could theorize that there is something incomplete about this relationship, but that’s all I’d be doing–I can’t come up with any actual feelings or intuitions of dissatisfaction on which to hang such theories. Even in something like a tribe, might be your hunting buddy would be a different person from your talk-about-legends buddy. Holism can be taken too far–I think people have a built in tendency to divide things (including relationships) into categories, and while that tendency holds risks it also has a great deal of value.

This post was mentioned on Twitter by DavePollard: Coping With Complexity http://goo.gl/fb/ifpI…

Going through complicated situations has been at the top of my mind and heart lately. It’s good to have outside ideas to run my process through.

Thanks again!