Newsweek asked Richard Meier; Cooper, Robertson & Partners; and HOK to envision the city of the future. 2030 specifically, with a focus on the future of home/work, commute and recreation.
Newsweek asked Richard Meier; Cooper, Robertson & Partners; and HOK to envision the city of the future. 2030 specifically, with a focus on the future of home/work, commute and recreation. View predictions for NYC
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Booooooring!
All I have to say is that the websites of the future suck if this thing is any indication. When will people stop doing moving rollover links......stupid, stupid, stupid.
there were people who drew well and i prefer their depictions ten times more than these sanitized neato state versions done by the speculating condo planners.
hok appears to still believe in 20thC zoning.
and it appears we're moving away from the density that - according to david owen in green metropolis - makes manhattan so incredibly efficient!
probably right on both counts: we never learn.
So HOK has given us the Radiant City, dressed up with growies and wind turbines on the building?
Sigh.
Oh well, it was sponsored by Newsweek - not exactly a progressive institution.
I think the future is more likely to look like this than any of those images:
what is with the obsession for needless innovation coupled with tired, boring architectural schemes? According to HOK, in the future, dense forests will be able to grow deep into the stacked floors of high rises, a develop perhaps made possible by the luminescent steel trusses! In addition, we'll drive hideous cars down perfectly paved highways, whose dividers will actually support the growth of grass and will be unlittered. Finally, we'll have some sort of suspended monorail pods, combining the inefficiency of personal travel with the limited range of mass transit. What a brave new world!
How about this as an alternative: we learn from the previous several millenia of human development about how to build and live sustainably; couple that with increased funding for the very good, but underfunded mass transit modes that already exist. Then, we can also stop growing lawns (especially where they serve no purpose like highway medians), start curtailing automobile usage, stop promoting the kind of neighborhood-killing high-rise, but actually low-density development that made people hate our profession so much only a few decades ago, and maybe we can somehow avoid whatever toxic disaster that has caused humans in the HOK future to glow from within.
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