Chapter 114: Gotham in Progress (Part 2)
As Stark spoke, a model of a future city gradually emerged in Schiller's mind.
Like Stark said, this really suits Gotham.
The main problem in Gotham right now is that no matter how much it changes, the logistics operation system will always be in an extremely saturated state, which means there is no redundancy left for emergencies.
But don’t forget that in the future Gotham will have frequent accidents on the big stage, various villains will appear in turn, and natural and man-made disasters will follow one after another. If an accident occurs and the city will be paralyzed for half a day, then let’s not develop at all and everyone will patch it up every day. Just exhausted.
But now, Stark has proposed the concept of a three-dimensional city for the first time. It is not accurate to say that it is a three-dimensional city, but a brand-new hive city, in which each honeycomb is an independent structure and has its own independent ecosystem. , it’s like living hell.
To achieve this, it is not enough to build buildings one after another on one plane. The space cannot be fully utilized, so a three-dimensional structure must be created.
Roads can not only be close to the ground, but can also travel through the city. Parking lots and parks can also be built in mid-air. Apartments and houses can be stacked three-dimensionally.
In fact, this concept has been proposed a long time ago, but as Stark said, Gotham is simply a perfect place for experimentation, because here, due to some historical development reasons, many areas of Gotham have spontaneously formed this kind of Mode, like living hell.
Indeed, the living hell is a slum, extremely dirty and messy, but this does not mean that it is not part of the three-dimensional city. The living hell has initially achieved what Stark said, with independent regions, extremely high space utilization, and independent These are the most critical characteristics of urban ecosystems.
This means that as long as the problems of water supply, power supply and living environment are solved, a small piece of honeycomb has been completed.
The same is true for other areas of Gotham. As long as they are transformed piece by piece, one honeycomb after another will be completed directly.
At that time, we only need to combine these honeycombs and glue them together with a transportation system that connects the entire city, and then Gotham City will become a truly three-dimensional city.
This is Gotham's unique advantage. If other cities want to achieve this structure, they almost have to tear down the entire city and rebuild it.
The publishing plan that Bruce came up with was actually very advanced. In Bruce's version of the plan, he designed a modern city. From the urban ecosystem to the logistics operation system, everything was almost perfect. The only problem was to achieve This effect is basically equivalent to tearing down Gotham and rebuilding it.
The manpower, material resources, and various costs required for this are simply astronomical. Even the Wayne Group can't afford the reconstruction of such a huge city.
And to rebuild, a large number of people will need to be resettled, which is where Bruce and Falcone have a headache.
You can't just say that if you want to knock down the house, let everyone live on the road, right?
To accommodate these people, new houses must be built. In this way, all construction costs and time costs will be doubled. For this reason, they feel that this plan can only be used as a final backup plan, and they hope that Schiller can Give a better suggestion.
Stark is indeed worthy of being a genius cursed by knowledge. Perhaps it is not a matter of knowledge, but that compared to Batman, he is more unconstrained and creative.
Until this era of Marvel, no city has successfully realized a three-dimensional city. There may be some cities that naturally have this attribute due to terrain conditions, but in fact they have not been fully realized, and may only be in a small area. There is a prototype.
But if this solution is applied to Gotham, it will indeed achieve low reconstruction cost and time investment, and can also leave a lot of traffic redundancy.
Soon, the enthusiastic Stark used Jarvis's computing power to come up with a detailed plan, which was divided into three versions and six sets of transformation plans. Then he proudly put his hands on his hips and said: " Who is the most powerful genius in the world now? Of course it’s Stark!”
"Indeed." After seeing the plan, Bruce gave an answer: "This friend of yours is indeed a genius."
Although he didn't understand why the symbiote in his mind made a series of frightened grunts and then hid after seeing the writing on it, Bruce was very satisfied with it.
"Is he interested in coming to Gotham for development? Wayne Group will give him a pretty good reward." Bruce asked.
"I'm afraid it's difficult. He's actually not short of money, and he thinks very highly of himself. I'm afraid he won't be employed by anyone."
"A common problem among geniuses." Bruce said, but he didn't think it was a big deal. There are so many geniuses in the world that it's impossible for them all to work for him. And with Gotham's reputation, basically anyone who doesn't have a clue can do it. Come.
After showing this plan to the architectural planning experts they hired at a high price, everyone was a little amazed. In this era without the help of computers, general urban planning plans do not give too many details. Most of them are Confirmation will be started after the specific construction.
But because Stark has Jarvis, a time-honored super artificial intelligence, to help with calculations, the plan he gave is basically more detailed than Lego's assembly instructions, almost accurate to the height of each wall and each rod. The load-bearing range of the columns, how each wire is laid, and so on.
In simple terms, if you take these materials and build them step by step, you will get a brand new Gotham City as easy as building blocks.
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And because the changes are relatively small, most of them are added, and there is no need for large-scale personnel relocation and resettlement. At most, a small-scale relocation will be carried out when the original building is repaired, which is completely within the acceptable range of Falcone and Wayne Group.
Schiller made a suggestion to them, that is, you can't eat a fat man in one bite, there is no need to start from the most difficult part, you can find the simplest place to renovate, anyway, if there is any mistake, it won't get worse.
Yes, this place is a living hell, and the living environment here is really hard to describe. Bruce and Falcone have been here before, and they agree with Schiller's point of view that no matter how much this ghost place is changed, it will not be worse than it is now.
Therefore, the pilot of the first phase of Gotham City's transformation plan was placed in the living hell.
Of course, there are residents in the living hell, and there are a lot of them. When they heard that the place was going to be rebuilt, they were unwilling but had no choice. If it was just the Wayne Group, it would be fine, but the key is that there is also the Falcone family, which is the leader of the gangs in Gotham. They can't resist at all. When they heard that there was compensation, they had planned to take the money and move out and never come back.
But to their surprise, this transformation was not a grand reconstruction, but more like a patchwork.
First, the construction team formed by the gang families hired a large number of people to clean the place inside and out.
It turned out that the living hell did not have any garbage disposal facilities. Most of the garbage was thrown out directly through the window, which turned it into a huge garbage dump. Just to clean up the garbage, hundreds of people were mobilized and it took several days.
Then the water conservancy engineering team entered the site and began to fully transform the water pipes here. According to Stark's design, the living water facilities of the three-dimensional city should not only include full access to tap water, but also include solar water heaters and water purification devices.
Schiller directly omitted the step of water heater. Gotham people don't care so much. It's only 1987 now. If you want hot water, can't you boil it yourself?
But the water purification device is indeed necessary. This is when Bruce came on stage. He set up a regional water purification pump, which was buried underground in each hive city module to purify and filter the circulating water in the area, and also to facilitate the discharge of boiling water into the sea after filtering.
Batman's move is naturally extraordinary. The power of this water purification device can fully meet the needs of domestic water recycling, and it is also very environmentally friendly.
Next, it is to lay water pipes to access tap water. There are more than 2,800 water points in the entire living hell. After completion, it has almost achieved comprehensive water diversion into households, and no longer needs to use public wells or pumps.
Next is the entry of the power system, which was also designed by Bruce himself. Gotham City has sufficient electricity, but the utilization rate is not high.
All the artificially pulled wires and antennas in the living hell were removed. Stark had already calculated the best line design with the help of Jarvis. When landing, Batman also appeared to carry out further localization transformation. After the line was laid, it was possible to achieve that there was no wire in the whole city, but the power utilization rate was extremely high and there was no power outage all day.
Then there were gas and heating problems, and the solutions were basically the same.
In addition, the passages inside the living hell were also refined. The original dozens of intestinal passages were combined with the building, widened and connected in series. On the basis of not changing the main body of the building, all the corridors and rooms were connected together with the shortest route.
Based on Stark's design drawings, Bruce also designed a channel elevator suitable for the living hell. The elevator passage was designed to be a grid with many connections, and the transport warehouse could be transported from the residential corridor to the nearest living area through the elevator passage.
In addition, the entire area was also equipped with police station branches, emergency hospitals, rooftop parks, ecological forests on the top of buildings, alley sports facilities, rooftop football fields and other necessary environmental facilities for three-dimensional cities.
Since this was a joint renovation by several major forces in Gotham, the manpower and material resources mobilized far exceeded the demand, the efficiency was extremely high, and the speed was very fast.
Most importantly, under the threat of force, the residents' wishes could be ignored, and no resident came out to express different opinions or oppose the renovation. With the full strength of the city, the living hell was almost quickly built into a complete honeycomb module.
The last thing to do was to renovate the exterior, including installing more than 6,000 electric lights with sufficient lighting power, reinstalling insulation layers on the exterior walls of the building, designing window anti-theft measures, adding balconies, and beautifying the exterior facades of the building.
Inside the building, all corridors were repaired, unreasonable apartment types were renovated, and all stores and shops in the living area were rebuilt and converted into modern stores.
In addition, fire-fighting equipment was added, including reserving fire passages, placing fire-fighting equipment, and installing fire sprinklers.
The last thing to be completed was the beautification of the green space. Although there was no green space on the ground in the entire living hell area, the greening on the rooftops of buildings of varying heights, greening in the alleys, greening on balconies, etc., still made the greening area barely meet the standard.
So, when the residents of the living hell who moved out moved back, they found themselves living in a place that seemed familiar but completely different.
This is a modern, even futuristic three-dimensional honeycomb city, dense but not crowded, well-connected but not chaotic, seemingly lacking in many things, but actually well-equipped, as if everything appears where it shouldn't, but very convenient.
More importantly, in addition to practical functions, the aesthetics has also reached its peak.
A steel forest rises from the ground, the metal channel handrails become branches, countless bright lights become leaves, and the vitality growing in the cold steel skeleton between the flying light spots is just right for this crazy city, with people moving, light and dark interweaving, cold and warm stacking, the city is getting bigger, and humans are getting smaller.
It's only 1987 now, and most cities are still in the era of high-rise buildings and roads. Such a cyber-style city is cutting-edge enough even in the 21st century, and it can be said to be shocking now.
And this is not just to improve the quality of life for the citizens. More importantly, two flyovers pass through this modular city center, which triples the transportation capacity of the entire street.
Many truck drivers do not take the road on the ground in the next block, but take the flyover instead. The transportation capacity of this area has increased instantly. Moreover, once an accident occurs on one road, a sign will light up at the entrance, and the driver can choose another road. This leaves a lot of redundancy for logistics transportation.
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