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Urban Planning is crucial to ensure that a city is sustainable, has a transportation system that works (very few traffic jams), is safe, has affordable housing and other considerations. Planning can make a big difference to a city. Vancouver’s planners have incorporated a seawall around much of the downtown core of the city and opposite banks. The result is a vibrant, walking, biking, running city full of healthy people.
Vancouver’s Seawalls
Urban Planning Map (see wiki for details)
Seawall
Kabul City Map
Transit
Canary Wharf Tube Station, London
Very densely built-up areas require high capacity urban transit, and urban planners must consider these factors in long term plans.
Urben Integrated Farming and the Buckminster Fuller Institute Challenge
From Eco-cities to Living Machines
In this book John Todd talks about Vertical Farms, about growing mushrooms and having rooftop gardens, about farming in warehouses in the city.
John Todd’s website is Todd Ecological. He and Nancy Todd have been working with Bucky Fuller’s ideas at a Ocean Arks International, which used to be called New Alchemy.
Rhizome Baobab 