On our first episode, we chat with Ken King, the founder of Vertical City. Ken discusses how he came up with the Vertical City idea, the challenges to making the book become a reality, and the problems that the Vertical City concept can solve.
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"It’s a collection of the best ideas from the best minds in their related fields." - Ken King
Show Notes:
"In order to save the problem, you have to save the farmland. And to save the farmland, you have to go very very high." - Ken King
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"Our concept of the vertical city is a city that can be designed to be carbon-neutral." - Ken King
- How Ken defines a vertical city
- Why a true vertical city has never been built
- What a vertical city must contain
- What inspired Ken to work on a design idea for a vertical city
- The problem with cities today
- The moment when he first conceived of the vertical city concept
- How he decided to write the Vertical City book
- About the experts that Ken talked to in order to write the book
- What distinguishes a vertical city from a multifunction building
- Why wind will be one of the biggest challenges for a vertical city
"In order to save the problem, you have to save the farmland. And to save the farmland, you have to go very very high." - Ken King
- How the Sky Lobby works
- How a vertical city can alleviate many problems we have with cities today
- How many people a vertical city could hold
- Why reducing the footprint of our cities using vertical cities can help our environment, health, and economy
- How the temperature difference at the top of the vertical city will be accounted for
- Food production in a vertical city
- The many cities that Ken has lived in around the world, and how they have inspired his vertical city concept
- What you can do to get involved in vertical cities
- Where the first vertical city might be built
Links Mentioned:
"Our concept of the vertical city is a city that can be designed to be carbon-neutral." - Ken King