Comments on: The THREE DECK CITY is COMING (Jul, 1931)

By: jayessell

jayessell — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:25:53 +0000

Mutants on the bottom level?

By: Kizor

Kizor — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:01:29 +0000

There are some areas with the suggested two-level system in Helsinki. The one that largely consists of offices seems like a pleasant, if bizarre piece of retro-futurism dropped into the middle of a city. A view from the top of the plate: http://www.kuvaboxi.fi/mediaob.....3web_0.jpg

The one that largely consists of apartments is eveyone’s favourite whipping dog as an example of soulless, industrial design, but is apparently magnificent for parkour.

By: LightningRose

LightningRose — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:42:54 +0000

Parts of Chicago have multilevel streets for auto and truck traffic, and downtown Minneapolis has a human habitrail system so pedestrians can move around without dealing with the winter weather.

By: Torgo

Torgo — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:43:46 +0000

What a great idea! What planning! This is why New York is such a clean, efficient city today!

By: Eli

Eli — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:04:22 +0000

No traffic lights needed because intersecting traffic will be on different levels? This, of course, presumes that no one going north or south will ever need to turn east or west.

By: Baron Waste

Baron Waste — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:11:37 +0000

This is actually a tie-in / cash-in to Just Imagine (1930). Elsewhere on this site is an article describing the city model built for that film. The dead-on resemblance will be instantly obvious.

By: Love Encounter Flow

Love Encounter Flow — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:32:06 +0000

it’s actually worse than what i thought

By: Love Encounter Flow

Love Encounter Flow — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:29:58 +0000

crap! you beast swallowed my characters! that’s 香港中環 to you!! gee can i even write an umlaut in this system? lets try äöü

By: Love Encounter Flow

Love Encounter Flow — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:28:02 +0000

if you want to see a city like this go see hongkong central district (????) e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hk-central.JPG

i am not sure i like the result tho

By: Toronto

Toronto — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:09:12 +0000

Casandro – the cars do a good job of packing down the snow for me on my bike.

By: Casandro

Casandro — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:54:19 +0000

Why allow cars to get into cities at all?

By: John Savard

John Savard — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:41:13 +0000

Elevated open walkways and the like have often been part of concepts of the city of the future. This probably wasn’t even where the idea got started.

It makes sense to have the pedestrian level the topmost one, but then there’s the problem of needing to climb stairs, or take the elevator or the escalator, to leave downtown.

And, of course, we who live in the future know that what the city of the future really needed was multi-level parkades, so that people can easily change from being automobile passengers to pedestrians.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:30:33 +0000

Ah, great! An article by good old UTHAI VINCENT WILCOX. I always wondered whatever happened to that guy.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:13:53 +0000

That’s actually great idea.

I cross the Chicago Loop on foot a lot, and it’s not so bad – walkers outnumber the cars – but for drivers it’s tough to make a turn because the road is clogged with pedestrians.

I guess it would make the street level kind of dark and gloomy, though.