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POPULATION AND DENSITY
How many people can peacefully and respectfully coexist
within one Square Kilometer of a city without compromising on functionality and
respectable individual social space. You have empirical examples and you can
also make a simulation model of maximum density case scenario including
residential, working and transitory population. Acknowledging that population
density is never a correct indicator of quality of life. Acknowledging that 2
dimensional approach of population density should be revisited to include 3rd
dimension as more and more people are being accommodated vertically, and as
more and more utilities, mobility, asset, cargo can be accommodated underground
in coming times.
CONSTRUCTION
How much Built Up Area (BUA) a City can technically hold
within one Sqkm, given the limitation of existing construction technology,
available sustainable material of choice and considering requirements of
structural stability. You can build and test scenarios and models based on type
of landuse including mixeduse case and you can also make digital twin/ BIM/vGIS
model to check if model is workable as habitable. Acknowledging that Hong kong
style housing was never an ideal architectural concept of creating more
built-up area in a city and it was only a technological and financial
constraint. Rather imagine constructing a Cubic Km of monolith Real Estate
including private and public space like a perforated Swiss Cheese in form of
space frame as a maximum BUA case scenarios.
BIODIVERSITY
How much Biotic Diversity in terms of native regional flora,
fauna and wild meadows can be accommodated in a Cubic km of City along with
humans without overwhelming, compromising or competing for space and other
resources considering their growh rate. Acknowledging that way too much of
biodiversity in a city was never a good idea, like some exotic species leading
to biodiversity nuisance and like beehive on every corporate office and public
buildings leading to severe pollination issues.
SUSTAINABILITY AND SELF-RELIANCE
How much self sustainability a Cubic km of city can achieve
in terms of it's own
1) Food security,
2) Energy needs
3) Waste load management and
4) Water security, through range of means-
1.a) Urban agricultural, edible landscape, Food forest,
community seed bank, school seed bank, vertical farm, rooftop greenhouse, bush
food experience, kitchen garden, aquaponic, hydroponics, aeroponic, doomsday
vault, extended shelf life solutions-
2.b) Energy education, energy aware lifestyle, energy
conservation by design, interventions and appliances, energy load management,
IoT and edge devices, building energy load management through solar passive
architecture, building insulation/ ventilation, harvesting and storing energy
from sun, wind, algae, river, stream, canal, organic waste; biofuels, heat
recovery from process and thermal storage, Air Source Heat Pump/ ASHP, open
window detection, micro turbine-
3.c) Waste reduction, circular waste economy, recycling,
reuse, upcycle, repurpose, near zero construction waste,
4.d) Water conservation, treated sewage effluent, waste water treatment, IOT Sensors, water saving appliances, precision agriculture, mist irrigation, water from air condensation, extracting drinking water from air and others, flood water harvesting, storm water retention basin, cloud seeding,.
Author: Anoop Jha
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