Lilyopolis Fnbe X town.doc

1. Introduction
2. A Town Investigation on Better Township or Town or City Guidelines and Issues
3. Investigation & Data Collection: Ancient and old cities/
4. Investigation & Data Collection: The present towns/cities Investigation & Data
Collection: The future and better township The New “X” Town / Or the new
name
5. The Conclusion)
6. References list
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1.Introduction
For our final project of ENBE we are given a task to understand the natural built environment.
The aim of this presentation is to project ideas to create a more sustaining and better living
town for the future. We are assigned to be the mayor of this “X” town and is to propose a new
idea, structure and layout of the “X” town. Thus research must be down on how civilizations
from the past creating their towns and how it improves as time goes by. From past to present
and then future.
With this new found knowledge, it can help us understand more of the geometric shape,
system and structure of the city, zoning of the city, transportation, networking and
infrastructure of the city.
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2.The City
2.1 The City Definition
2.2 What is the brief history
2.3 What makes a city / town
2.4 What makes a good town/ township (guidelines etc)
2.5 What is the future towns
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2.1 The city definition
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A city is a relatively large and permanent human settlement. A city is a bigger
settlement than a town and much bigger than a town. Cities have a particular
administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law.
Cites are more developed compare to towns, cities have complex systems
for sanitation, utilities, land usage, housing and transportation. This systems greatly
benefit us humans by making interaction between humans and business proposition
much easier. Thus this process also helps in managing urban growth. Big cities are
mostly zoned into two different parts known as metropolitan areas and urban area,
with this it creates business opportunities such as people travelling to either
metropolitan areas or urban areas to search for employment. If a city manages to
expand far enough to reach another city, this new settlement will be called a
megalopolis. In terms of population, known as the largest city with millions of
inhabitants examples such as Shanghai.
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2.2 History of a City
Towns and cities have a long history , many opinions and stories vary from one
another about which ancient settlement can be considered a city. A city is formed is
a central place for trade for the benefit of members and society. These also have its
pros and cons towards a city being the trading central. Benefits include reduced
transport costs, exchange of ideas, sharing of natural resources, large local markets,
and later in their development, amenities such as running water and sewage
disposal. Negative outcomes might include higher rate of crime, higher living cost,
increase of pollution, heavy traffic and high commuting times. Cities grow when the
benefits between people and firms outweigh the negative outcomes
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2.3 What Makes a City
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Shopping malls
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Gym
Skyscraper
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Public Transportation
Amusement Park
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Government building
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2.4 What Makes a Good Town/
Township
1. Good job opportunities – with good job opportunities more citizens will want to
stay in the town. More job opportunities will also benefit the economy by
improving it infrastructure, increase the value of the currency used, and
preventing bankruptcy of big companies
2. Architecture – big beautiful monuments, skyscrapers, interesting new innovative
architectural designs and vintage heritage sites will make the town more
interesting and invite more tourist to visit the town thus bringing pride and good
name to the town
3. Activities and Social Life - interesting activities and social life will promote joy
and amusement to the citizens of the town. After a long day of work or studies
we all look forward to something interesting and fun to cheer us up. We all
want to spoil ourselves with a shopping spree, drinking sessions, exercising to
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make life more interesting and fun. This will motivate the inhabitants of the town
to be more motivated to work or do better.
4. Good Education – with good education the town will be able to produce future
leaders which will be able to sustain or better yet improve the town. Improving
the economy with new innovative ideas and suggestions
5. Parks and Open space – Mother nature gods beautiful creation. Having a
green lung in a town is great as a place for families to gather for picnics. A
place that is relaxing also making the air in the town cleaner.
6. Transportation – good public transport throughout the town will reduce cost on
petrol, reduce carbon foot print on the earth, reduce traffic and reduce
pollution
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2.5 What is Future Towns
1. Eco friendly – a system that can help prevent pollutions and reduce pollutions.
Self cleaning waste to remove waste and turning it into raw energy to power
the town. Less carbon release, this will also help improve the condition of the
earth
2. Self – Sustaining – without the need of bio fuel and natural gas, can produce
energy by itself, proper energy balance without harming the lives of humans,
emphasizing on the usage of solar panels to generate electricity
3. Modern looking – new design, innovative and inspiring, aesthetic and eye
catching
4. Better transportation – reduces traffic and time used to arrive at the desired
destination
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3.Investigation & Data Collection:
Ancient Cities / towns
3.1 When did it start? History and all
3.2 What ancient city are you concentrating on?
3.3 What makes is a significant city and what are the details?
3.4 Conclusion about the cities
3.5 What information or element that you can use to your new future city
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3.1 When did it start? History and All
Ancient City ( Taormina )
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Taormina is a small town on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy, in
the Province of Messina, about midway between Messina and Catania. It has
popular beaches on the Ionian sea, which is remarkably warm and has a high
salt content. Taormina can be reached from Messina from the north and
Catania from the south.
3.2 What Ancient City Are You
Concentrating On
An ancient city next to the sea
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3.3 What makes is a significant city
and what are the details?
In the 19th century Taormina gained further fame as the place where Wilhelm
von Gloeden worked most of his life as a photographer of predominantly
male nudes. There is some speculation about Taormina being an early gentlemen's
destination. Also credited for making Taormina popular was Otto Geleng, best
known in his hometown of Berlin for his fine paintings, which he painted in Italy but
exhibited in Germany. What distinguishes Geleng, however, is his choice to paint the
more southern regions where he captured the spectacular views and light of Sicily.
He often painted the area's Greek colonial ruins, including Taormina. Taormina's first
important tourist was Johann Wolfgang Goethe who dedicated exalting pages of
the city in his book entitled Italian Journey, but perhaps it was Geleng’s perspective
that made its beauty talked about throughout Europe and turned the site into a
famous tourist center.
3.4 Conclusion about the cities
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Taormina was the famous destination people desire to arrive at in the 19th
century. The natural beauty of the place is one of a kind. Till this very day Taormina is
just as famous as it was previously in the 19th
century maybe more.
3.5What information or element I
could use for my future city
Keeping the heritage sites to preserve culture of the city
Use the waves hitting the shore to generate energy
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4 Investigation & Data Collection:
Present Towns / township
4.1 When did it start? History and all
4.2 What town are you concentrating on?
4.3 What makes is a significant town and what are the details?
4.4 Conclusion about the towns
4.5 What information or element that you can use to your new town
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4.1 When Did it Start? History and All
Current City ( Honolulu Hawaii )
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Honolulu is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S.
state of Hawaii. It is the county seat of the City and County of Honolulu. Hawaii is a
major tourist destination and Honolulu, situated on the island of Oahu, is the main
gateway to Hawaii and a major gateway into the United States. The city is also a
major hub for international business, military defense, as well as famously being host
to a diverse variety of east-west and Pacific culture, cuisine, and traditions.
Honolulu means "sheltered harbor" or "calm port." The old name is said to be Kou, a
district roughly encompassing the area from Nuuanu Avenue to Alakea Street and
from Hotel Street to Queen Street which is the heart of the present downtown
district. The city has been the capital of the Hawaiian islands since 1845 and gained
historical recognition following the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan near the city on
December 7, 1941.
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4.2 What Town Are You Concentrating
On?
A town next to the sea
4.3 What Makes Is a Significant City
and What are The Details?
Natural museums
The Bishop Museum is the largest of Honolulu's museums. It is filled with the
state's largest collection of natural history specimens and the world's largest
collection of Hawaiiana and Pacific culture artifacts. The Honolulu Zoo is the
main zoological institution in Hawaii while the Waikiki Aquarium is a working marine
biology laboratory. The Waikiki Aquarium is partnered with the University of
Hawaii and other universities worldwide. Established for appreciation and botany,
Honolulu is home to several gardens: Foster Botanical Garden, Liliʻuokalani Botanical
Garden and Walker Estate.
Performing arts
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Established in 1900, the Honolulu Symphony is the oldest US symphony
orchestra west of the Rocky Mountains. Other classical music ensembles include
the Hawaii Opera Theatre. Honolulu is also a center for Hawaiian music. The main
music venues include the Hawaii Theatre, the Neal Blaisdell Center Concert Hall and
Arena, and the Waikiki Shell.
Honolulu also includes several venues for live theater, including the Diamond Head
Theatre.
Visual arts
Various institutions for the visual arts are located in Honolulu.
The Honolulu Museum of Art is endowed with the largest collection of Asian and Western
art in Hawaii. It also has the largest collection of Islamic art, housed at the Shangri
La estate. Since the merger of the Honolulu Academy of Arts and The Contemporary
Museum, Honolulu (now called the Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House) in 2011, the
museum is also the only contemporary art museum in the state. The contemporary
collections are housed at main campus (Spalding House) in Makiki and a multi-level
gallery in downtown Honolulu at the First Hawaiian Center. The museum hosts a film and
video program dedicated to arthouse and world cinema in the museum's Doris Duke
Theatre, named for the museum's historic patroness Doris Duke.
The Hawaii State Art Museum (also downtown) boasts pieces by local artists as well as
traditional Hawaiian art. The museum is administered by the Hawaii State Foundation on
Culture and the Arts.
Honolulu also annually holds the Hawaii International Film Festival . It showcases some of
the best films from producers all across the Pacific Rim and is the largest "East meets
West" style film festival of its sort in the United States.
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4.4 Conclusion about the towns
The largest city and airport in the Hawaiian Island is located in Honolulu.
Honolulu serves as a natural gateway to the island’s tourism industry, which also
brings millions of visitors and contributes around $10 billion annually to the local
economy. Honolulu’s location is the Pacific also attracts business especially from the
East and West. Other important aspects of the city’s economy include military,
defense, research, development and manufacturing
4.5 What information and element that
you can use for your new town
The industrial, military, defense, research, development and manufacturing of
Honolulu.
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5.Investigation & Data Collection:
The future of towns and Better Towns
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Venus Project
The Venus Project proposes an alternative vision of what the future can be if
we apply what we already know in order to achieve a sustainable new world
civilization. It calls for a straightforward redesign of our culture in which the age-old
inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt and unnecessary human suffering are
viewed not only as avoidable, but as totally unacceptable. Anything less will result in
a continuation of the same catalogue of problems inherent in today's world. Today
many people believe what is needed is a higher sense of ethical standards and the
enactment of international laws to assure a sustainable global society.
Off Shore Living
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Offshore apartment buildings of concrete, steel, glass, titanium, and a wide
variety of new synthetic materials could be built to relieve the population pressure in
areas like Hong Kong, Tokyo, Los Angeles, and New York. The materials used in such
projects would be engineered to withstand the corrosive effects of the harsh ocean
environment.
Fish Farming and Fish Cultivation
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Such systems would be used to cultivate and raise fish and other forms of marine
life to help meet the nutritional needs of the world's people. Capable of cultivating a
great variety of marine life, these structures would be equipped to permit the free
flow of water throughout the system. They are designed to be a non-contaminating,
integral part of the marine environment.
Automated Water System
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Eventually, with applied total design concepts and "mega-hydrological"
projects, we could minimize the threat of floods and drought. These waterways
would be an integrated part of a national flood control system that would hold back
floodwaters, which could be released during periods of drought, and be used to
maintain the water table. It could also be used for irrigation, shipping passengers
and bulk freight; and the water storage basins could be used for recreation as well.
In many instances, the waterway would be used as evaporative desalinization.
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6.The New “X” City / Lilyopolis
6.1 How did you came up with the solution to create this new town
6.2 What is the important characteristic and elements
6.3 Etc…
6.4 Conclusion about the new X town
6.5 Etc
Lilyopolis
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I decided on the name Liliopolis because it resembles a lily floating on water
as it beside the sea. In my town food, water and daily essential needs are supplied.
My town will be divided into different sections for different purposes such as work,
drinking and residential areas, each area serves an important purpose to maintain a
happy living environment. My town too will be powered by solar energy and other
means of generating safe energy. Besides that, it too will be eco friendly and have a
good service of waste diposal.
Zoning
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Residential areas ( apartments, houses, mansions )
Commercial areas ( shopping malls, shops )
Drinking areas ( pubs, bars and clubs )
Agriculture areas ( vegetation and plantations)
Football stadium
Parks ( recreational areas, playgrounds, open are space )
Education areas ( schools, universities and collages )
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Tourist area ( resorts and the main of the city )
Hospitals
Transportation and Links
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My town proves many transportation means, such as a roads for vehicles to travel
on and special roads for bikes and bicycles to travel on safely. Besides that we too also
provide public transport such as trains, subways stations under the city, and busses.
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Sustainable Approach to your Town
Waste management
The waste it thrown away in the bins as seen above thus transported to an area through
underground tunnels where a rubbish truck can come and dispose of the waste materials.
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Solar Energy
Solar energy will help converse the environment without the excess burning of natural gas
to produce energy. Also saving the environment from pollution thus also making the city more clean
and enjoyable to live in.
Robots
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Robots will help us humans with our daily actives making it easier for us in future. Robots
too can help us with annoying task such as cleaning, garbage disposal, repairing dangerous items,
accessing spaces that too are dangerous or inaccessible to humans.
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7.Conclusion
As I have learned from past cities till very modern day cities. Nothing can be
achieved without failure. The architectural designs have evolved and has given
me many inspiring designs and different opinions on aesthetic presentations of
buildings. Unique designs of buildings are being made all over the world serving
different purposes and weathers. Sadly the only flaw is that of as humans evolve
we too create mass destruction in the progress such as pollution and global
warming, this harms the earth and our health too. We should all work together to
make a better future and better living space for our current and future
generations to come.
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8.Reference Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City
http://www.sasaki.com/media/files/cities_survey_final-1.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taormina
http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/top-10/beach-cities-photos/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu
http://www.thevenusproject.com/technology/cities-in-the-sea
http://www.thevenusproject.com/
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