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Vertical City Documentary Premiers Calling for New Urban Form

3/9/2016

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Can a vertical city model solve the problems of modern urban sprawl? Two of the loudest advocates for sky scraper cities, Ken King and Kellogg Wong, have just released a pretty convincing documentary as part of their ongoing movement. Watch it here...

As urban designers, architects and academics alike look to solve years of poor planning and ever-decreasing space in our cities, one vision for the future that pops up time and time again is the concept of a ‘vertical city’. Maximizing on space, a vertical city is a mixed use high rise building which combines all the real estate of your average town: residential, business, commercial, leisure, hospitality, food production and services. It is the direct opposite of urban sprawl, and an ultra-futuristic solution for sustainability – its proponents tend to highlight preventing the loss of green spaces and farmland and a low carbon-footprint (since all travel is vertical and there is no need for roads or vehicles) as the keys to the concept’s potential success. Two of the loudest advocates of vertical cities, architects and authors Ken King and Kellogg Wong have just premiered a short documentary, which follows their book on the same topic, with an aim of convincing the cities of the future to look up...
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