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these sorts of "mega-cities" are often a staple in futuristic dystopian scifi, and they've always struck me as completely impractical. There are circumstances
by lotharbot 9y ago
these sorts of "mega-cities" are often a staple in futuristic dystopian scifi, and they've always struck me as completely impractical. There are circumstances where bigger is better, where you get increased efficiency due to scale, but mega-city-tower-dome-things don't really provide many benefits, while they come with a lot of complication.
- remarkEon 9y agoYeah I think Blade Runner is close to the most accurate depiction of what we'll end up with. Superstructures are interesting to me, but in terms of practicality I always thought building them in orbit makes a lot more sense than on Earth.
- Razengan 9y agoMonolith "megacities" may become practical, and even necessary, in interplanetary colonization: We may not be able to simply build anywhere we wish on a given planet, and the horizontal sprawl of "traditional" cities in unexplored and potentially hostile environments would be risky. Having a single place for spaceships/landers to dock at/orbit over, right next to the facilities for refueling, cargo transfer, storage, processing, distribution etc. would be desirable, so more-or-less vertical megastructures may be more practical there.