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6 facts about the wonderful cities that wanted to build a Disney Hitler and vegetarians
The site publishes a compilation of the plans, more like a dream ... about the city in which all should have been happy. But failed as obychno.1. Wonder Waltham DisneyaEsli have a great multiplier realized his venture, now on the map instead of the Florida theme park Disney World might have been a unique town with the strange name Epcot (EPCOT). It is an acronym behind which "experimental prototype community of the future» (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow).
"It will be an ideal city with reliable public transport and a highly developed administrative center, covered all-weather dome, resistant to weathering from the outside - Disney dreamed. - In the midst of lush greenery house a model of the enterprise, easily accessible for employees who live nearby in the idyllic suburban sectors ».
EPCOT, designed for 20 000 inhabitants, has a radial layout. In the center - the hotel is 30 floors and a business park around them - public buildings, schools and recreational facilities, on the perimeter - sleeping areas.
Practically the whole town - a continuous pedestrian zone, and cars race through underground routes. A ride on the monorail at the top can be more like a ride than for public transport.
Magically, but ... Disney did not really have time to take up the construction, and after his death in 1966, Walt Disney Company has decided to abandon the project. As a result, EPCOT was just one of the theme parks' World Walt Disney ».
2. "City vegetarians" Imagine, in America, in Kansas, even in the nineteenth century could occur even if a small, but full-fledged city, populated by some "grass-eaters!" The project in 1856, he, however, called the city-octahedron that betrayed his plan, but not the essence.
From the central square of the proper octagonal should miss 8 main streets, the space between them is filled to the house, too, octagons, and the same shape and abmary farmyard. The octagonal architecture somehow was popular in the mid-19th century America.
Dreaming of a great future, a vegetarian, had come to the place of the first hundred settlers volunteers. But instead of a "burgeoning town with a mill and a sawmill," it appeared the only timbered little house and dozens of tents - one for the family. Supplies extracted with difficulty, because the nearest population centers are far away, on top of people tormented by mosquitoes, and frequent storms deprived of the opportunity to live in the idyllic nature.
In general, less than a year, all the settlers but the founding fathers fled from there happily. Now this ghost town there is nothing left, only named in his memory a local creek Vedzhiterian Creek.
3. Triton City - city korablV 1960s American engineer-inventor Buckminster Fuller proposed to build a city on the water in the form of a tetrahedron, where they could live permanently 6,000 people. He would be completely autonomous, desalinating water for its own installations, and resistant to storms and even tsunamis.
This floating city would be the salvation of the countries with a deficit of land and high population density. Indeed, the idea caught fire once a wealthy Japanese businessman, he even commissioned to design the Fuller Triton City in Tokyo Bay, but died before anything had time to be realized.
Then interest was shown by the Americans, in particular, the authorities Baltimore lobbied Triton construction project in the Chesapeake Bay. In their version of the city is not necessarily resembled a giant ship, and could be, for example, thus:
However, further plans, it never went - perhaps because of the price of 670 million dollars. But who knows, maybe there will be more such cities in the future. As noted by Fuller himself, our planet is 70% covered by oceans, and hence floating cities should be quite natural for her.
4. The capital of the world, Germany was opposed to the previous one, you're unlikely to want to see this giant city on the map, and the more there be. Conceived by Hitler, he had to grow on the site of today's Berlin and truly become the capital of his "world empire».
He would have been packed with monuments glorifying the Third Reich, and in general would be a model of megalomania with the world's largest Olympic stadium and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris by type, but much more. Right behind it was located would alley, "decorated" rows of captured guns.
Rebuild Berlin for these purposes began in 1937. To the birthday of Hitler in 1939 already laid 20 km east-west axis - one of two broad highways that cross the city had to "cross" through the center. In addition, the new location was moved to the Victory Column at the same time an increase in the height of 7, 5 meters.
In addition, urban renewal called for an underground pipe, and began to dig a tunnel, too. But work stopped when the war began.
5. Dongtan - healthy city buduschegoEkologichny paradise in China, one of the islands at the mouth of the Yangtze River, was supposed to be a shining example for the modern world. There is no overcrowding, no cars with harmful emissions - only electric and hydrogen vehicles. Recycled waste would be used as fertilizer for the organic farms, and would serve as a source of energy the sun, wind and biofuels.
In 2005, an ambitious plan was agreed and even signed by the then head of China Hu Jintao and the United Kingdom and Tony Blair. Ecocity was to take residents already in 2020, but to create a utopia again failed. In 2006, the project was halted indefinitely because of financial problems and corruption scandals.
6. "The Ninth Heaven" - a city floating in oblakahEsche a fantastic idea inventor Buckminster Fuller, who invented the floating city. This time, he offered to settle people in flying mini-cities collectively as Cloud Nine (literally "Cloud Nine"). But do not deceive the prefix "mini": it was a question of giant fields, populated by thousands of people.
The engineer suggested that such areas can be on a leash, free float or move depending on climatic conditions. If the calculations are correct and the project turned out to be able to realize, the problem of overcrowding in Tokyo would be solved as early as the middle of last century. So far, the most famous floating city can be seen only in the Japanese animated feature "Castle in the Sky».
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"It will be an ideal city with reliable public transport and a highly developed administrative center, covered all-weather dome, resistant to weathering from the outside - Disney dreamed. - In the midst of lush greenery house a model of the enterprise, easily accessible for employees who live nearby in the idyllic suburban sectors ».
EPCOT, designed for 20 000 inhabitants, has a radial layout. In the center - the hotel is 30 floors and a business park around them - public buildings, schools and recreational facilities, on the perimeter - sleeping areas.
Practically the whole town - a continuous pedestrian zone, and cars race through underground routes. A ride on the monorail at the top can be more like a ride than for public transport.
Magically, but ... Disney did not really have time to take up the construction, and after his death in 1966, Walt Disney Company has decided to abandon the project. As a result, EPCOT was just one of the theme parks' World Walt Disney ».
2. "City vegetarians" Imagine, in America, in Kansas, even in the nineteenth century could occur even if a small, but full-fledged city, populated by some "grass-eaters!" The project in 1856, he, however, called the city-octahedron that betrayed his plan, but not the essence.
From the central square of the proper octagonal should miss 8 main streets, the space between them is filled to the house, too, octagons, and the same shape and abmary farmyard. The octagonal architecture somehow was popular in the mid-19th century America.
Dreaming of a great future, a vegetarian, had come to the place of the first hundred settlers volunteers. But instead of a "burgeoning town with a mill and a sawmill," it appeared the only timbered little house and dozens of tents - one for the family. Supplies extracted with difficulty, because the nearest population centers are far away, on top of people tormented by mosquitoes, and frequent storms deprived of the opportunity to live in the idyllic nature.
In general, less than a year, all the settlers but the founding fathers fled from there happily. Now this ghost town there is nothing left, only named in his memory a local creek Vedzhiterian Creek.
3. Triton City - city korablV 1960s American engineer-inventor Buckminster Fuller proposed to build a city on the water in the form of a tetrahedron, where they could live permanently 6,000 people. He would be completely autonomous, desalinating water for its own installations, and resistant to storms and even tsunamis.
This floating city would be the salvation of the countries with a deficit of land and high population density. Indeed, the idea caught fire once a wealthy Japanese businessman, he even commissioned to design the Fuller Triton City in Tokyo Bay, but died before anything had time to be realized.
Then interest was shown by the Americans, in particular, the authorities Baltimore lobbied Triton construction project in the Chesapeake Bay. In their version of the city is not necessarily resembled a giant ship, and could be, for example, thus:
However, further plans, it never went - perhaps because of the price of 670 million dollars. But who knows, maybe there will be more such cities in the future. As noted by Fuller himself, our planet is 70% covered by oceans, and hence floating cities should be quite natural for her.
4. The capital of the world, Germany was opposed to the previous one, you're unlikely to want to see this giant city on the map, and the more there be. Conceived by Hitler, he had to grow on the site of today's Berlin and truly become the capital of his "world empire».
He would have been packed with monuments glorifying the Third Reich, and in general would be a model of megalomania with the world's largest Olympic stadium and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris by type, but much more. Right behind it was located would alley, "decorated" rows of captured guns.
Rebuild Berlin for these purposes began in 1937. To the birthday of Hitler in 1939 already laid 20 km east-west axis - one of two broad highways that cross the city had to "cross" through the center. In addition, the new location was moved to the Victory Column at the same time an increase in the height of 7, 5 meters.
In addition, urban renewal called for an underground pipe, and began to dig a tunnel, too. But work stopped when the war began.
5. Dongtan - healthy city buduschegoEkologichny paradise in China, one of the islands at the mouth of the Yangtze River, was supposed to be a shining example for the modern world. There is no overcrowding, no cars with harmful emissions - only electric and hydrogen vehicles. Recycled waste would be used as fertilizer for the organic farms, and would serve as a source of energy the sun, wind and biofuels.
In 2005, an ambitious plan was agreed and even signed by the then head of China Hu Jintao and the United Kingdom and Tony Blair. Ecocity was to take residents already in 2020, but to create a utopia again failed. In 2006, the project was halted indefinitely because of financial problems and corruption scandals.
6. "The Ninth Heaven" - a city floating in oblakahEsche a fantastic idea inventor Buckminster Fuller, who invented the floating city. This time, he offered to settle people in flying mini-cities collectively as Cloud Nine (literally "Cloud Nine"). But do not deceive the prefix "mini": it was a question of giant fields, populated by thousands of people.
The engineer suggested that such areas can be on a leash, free float or move depending on climatic conditions. If the calculations are correct and the project turned out to be able to realize, the problem of overcrowding in Tokyo would be solved as early as the middle of last century. So far, the most famous floating city can be seen only in the Japanese animated feature "Castle in the Sky».
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