lilyopolis fnbe x town.doc


Gabriel Chin Jincheng| 0320370

FNBE APR 2014 |

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



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.



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



2.1 The city definition

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.



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



2.3 What Makes a City

Shopping malls



Gym

Skyscraper



Public Transportation

Amusement Park



Government building



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 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



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



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



3.1 When did it start? History and All

Ancient City ( Taormina )



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

3.3 What makes is a significant city and what are the details?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionian_sea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catania

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messina

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Messina

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily


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

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.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Journey

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Otto_Geleng&action=edit&redlink=1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nude

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_von_Gloeden


3.5 What 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



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



4.1 When Did it Start? History

and All

Current City ( Honolulu Hawaii )



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.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_7,_1941

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oahu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu_County,_Hawaii

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_city%E2%80%93county

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_seat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capital_(United_States)


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, Lili ̒ uokalani Botanical Garden and Walker Estate.

Performing arts

Established in 1900, the Honolulu Symphony is the oldest US symphony

orchestra west of the Rocky Mountains. Other classical music ensembles include


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu_Symphony

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Estate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili%CA%BBuokalani_Botanical_Garden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_Botanical_Garden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_Botanical_Garden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Hawaii

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_biology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waikiki_Aquarium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu_Zoo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_Museum


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.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_International_Film_Festival

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_State_Foundation_on_Culture_and_the_Arts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_State_Foundation_on_Culture_and_the_Arts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_art

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_State_Art_Museum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Duke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Hawaiian_Center

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Hawaiian_Center

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Honolulu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spalding_House

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_art

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu_Museum_of_Art_Spalding_House

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu_Museum_of_Art_Spalding_House

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri_La_(Doris_Duke)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu_Museum_of_Art

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Head_Theatre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Head_Theatre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theater

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waikiki_Shell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Blaisdell_Center

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Theatre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_music

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Opera_Theatre


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.



5. Investigation & Data

Collection:

The future of towns and Better

Towns

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

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

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

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.



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



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



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 )

Tourist area ( resorts and the main of the city )

Hospitals

Transportation and Links



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.



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.



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



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.



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.



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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