Urban visionary Mitchell Joachim
The visionary in urban planning sees stackable cars and houses in trees. Radical thinking in a future green city: Soft and edible cars and new transportation systems, weaving energy-efficient houses into existing trees, making inter-skyscraper blimp ferries.
There are many factors to consider: The goal is to reach a better understanding of ecological urbanism and what cities might be in the future: cities should nurture and sustain themselves! Urbanism carries a carbon footprint beyond the physical limits of the city. Future cities will need to be carbon negative, including off-setting the city’s embodied energy – have you seen a thermo-photographed city?
Can cities increase the production of energy, food and improve public health? The heating of a city is not efficient and well understood and waste control is primitive.
Jobs for the urban planners – get going!