Chapter 114: Gotham In Progress (Part 2)
Along with Stark's story, a model of a future city gradually emerged in Schiller's mind.
As Stark said, this is indeed very suitable for Gotham. The main problem now is that no matter how the logistics operation system is changed, it will always be in an extremely saturated state, which means that no redundancy can be left to some emergencies.
Don’t forget that the future Gotham stage will be accidental frequently, and all kinds of villains will appear in turn, and natural disasters will come one after another. If an accident occurs, the city will be paralyzed for a long time. Then don’t develop it. Everyone will be exhausted every day.
But now, Stark has proposed the concept of a three-dimensional city for the first time. It is not accurate to say that it is a three-dimensional city, but a brand new honeycomb city, in which each honeycomb has an independent structure and has its own independent ecosystem, just like a living hell.
To do this, it is not enough to build one building after another on a plane. The space cannot be fully utilized. Therefore, a three-dimensional structure must be created. The roads can not only be close to the ground, but also travel through the city. Parking lots and parks can also be constructed in mid-air, and apartments and residences can be stacked in three-dimensionally.
In fact, this concept has been proposed for a long time, but as Stark said, Gotham is simply a perfect experimental place, because here, due to some historical development reasons, many areas of Gotham have spontaneously formed this model, such as Living Hell.
Indeed, Living Hell is a slum, extremely dirty and messy, but this does not mean that it is not part of a three-dimensional city. Living Hell has initially achieved what Stark said, regional independence, extremely high space utilization, and independent urban ecosystems. These are the most critical features.
This means that as long as the water supply, power supply and living environment problems are solved, a small piece of honeycomb has been completed.
The same is true for other areas of Gotham. As long as they are transformed one piece by one, they will directly complete one honeycomb after another.
At that time, you only need to combine these honeycombs and glue them together with a transportation system connecting the entire city, and Gotham City can become a truly three-dimensional city.
This is Gotham's unique advantage. If the rest of the cities want to achieve this structure, they will almost knock down the entire city and rebuild it.
The publication plan that Bruce came up with was actually very advanced. In Bruce's version, he designed a modern city, which almost all of them were perfect from the urban ecosystem to the logistics operation system. The only problem was that to achieve this effect, it was basically equivalent to demolishing Gotham and rebuilding it.
This requires manpower, material resources, and various costs, which are simply astronomical. Even the Wayne Group cannot bear the reconstruction of such a megacity.
Moreover, if rebuilding is done, a large number of people will need to be placed, which is exactly the headache for Bruce and Falcone.
You can't say that if you want to knock down a house, let everyone live on the road? And if you want to resettle these people, you have to build a new house. In this way, all construction costs and time costs will be doubled. Because of this, they feel that this plan can only be used as a final backup plan, and hope that Schiller can give a better suggestion.
Stark is indeed worthy of being a genius cursed by knowledge. Perhaps it is not a matter of knowledge, but rather than Batman, he is more imaginative and creative.
Three-dimensional cities have not been successfully realized until the Marvel era. Perhaps some cities that naturally possess this attribute due to terrain conditions are not fully realized, and may have only taken shape in a small area.
However, if this solution is applied in Gotham, it does achieve small reconstruction costs and low investment time, and can also leave a lot of traffic redundancy.
Soon, the enthusiastic Stark used Jarvis's computing power to give a detailed plan, which was divided into three versions and six transformation plans. Then he put his hands on his hips and said: "Who is the most powerful genius in the world now? Of course it is Stark!"
"Indeed." After seeing this plan, Bruce gave an answer: "Your friend is indeed a genius." Although he didn't understand why the symbiosis in his mind made a series of horror grunts after seeing the handwriting on it, and then hid, Bruce was still very satisfied with it.
"Are he interested in coming to Gotham to develop? The Wayne Group will give him a pretty good reward." Bruce asked.
"This is probably difficult. He is actually not short of money and has a high opinion of himself. He is afraid he will not be employed by anyone."
"A common problem with genius," said Bruce, but he didn't think there was anything. There were too many geniuses in this world, and it was impossible for them to work for him. Moreover, with Gotham's reputation, basically no one who had no worries would come.
After reading this plan to the architectural planning experts they hired at high prices, everyone was a little amazed. In this era, without the help of computers, general urban planning plans will not give too many details, and most of them will be confirmed after specific construction.
But because Stark had a trans-era super artificial intelligence that helped with calculations, the solution he gave was basically more detailed than the assembly manual of Lego, almost accurate to the height of each wall, the load-bearing range of each column, the laying method of each wire, etc.
Simply put, if you want to use these materials and build them step by step, you will get a brand new Gotham City as easily as building blocks.
Moreover, because the changes are relatively small, most of them are covered, and there is no need for large-scale personnel relocation and resettlement. At most, small-scale migration is carried out when the original building is repaired, which is completely within the acceptance scope of Falcone and Wayne Group.
Schiller made a suggestion to them, that is, he would not become fat in one bite, and there was no need to start from the most difficult part. He could find the simplest place to transform. Anyway, if there were any mistakes, it would not become worse.
That's right, this place is a living hell, and the living environment here is really hard to describe. Bruce and Falcone have been here before, and they also agree with Schiller's point of view. No matter how much this ghost place is changed, it will not be worse than it is now.
Therefore, the pilot of the first phase of the renovation plan in Gotham City was placed in the Living Hell. Of course, there are residents of Living Hell, and there are many. I heard that the renovation is going to be carried out, but they have no choice. If there is only one Wayne Group, it would be fine. The key is that there is a Falcone family, who is the gang leader of all Gotham. They cannot resist at all. I heard that there is compensation, so they have already planned to move out with the money and never come back.
But to their surprise, this transformation was not a vigorous overhaul and reconstruction, but more similar to repairing and repairing.
First, the construction team formed by a joint gang family hired a large number of people to clean up the inside and out of the place.
It turns out that there is no garbage disposal facility for Living Hell, and most of the garbage is thrown out directly along the window, which has led to a huge garbage dump. Just by cleaning up the garbage, hundreds of people have been used to spend several days.
Immediately afterwards, the water conservancy engineering team entered the venue and began to comprehensively renovate the water pipes here. According to Stark's design drawing, the domestic water facilities in the three-dimensional city must not only include the full connection of tap water, but of course also include photoelectric water heaters and water purification devices.
The water heater step was directly omitted by Schiller. Gotham people don’t pay much attention to it. It’s only 1987. Wouldn’t you burn it yourself if you want hot water?
But the water purification device is indeed necessary. At this time, Bruce came on the stage. He set up an area water purification pump, which was buried underground in each honeycomb city module, to purify and filter the circulating water in the area, and to facilitate filtering of boiling water and discharge into the sea.
Batman's move is naturally extraordinary. The power of this water purification device can fully meet the needs of recycling domestic water, and it is also very environmentally friendly.
Immediately afterwards, water pipes were laid to connect to tap water. There were more than 2,800 water points in the entire Living Hell. After completion, it had almost achieved a comprehensive water diversion into the household, and there was no need to use public water wells or pumps.
Then the power system was introduced, which was designed by Bruce himself. Gotham City has sufficient electricity, but the utilization rate is not high.
All the wires and antennas that were pulled by humans in the Living Hell were removed. Stark had already calculated the best line design plan with the help of Jarvis. When landing, Batman also made further localization transformation. After the online laying was completed, it was possible to not see a single wire in the city, but the power utilization rate was extremely high and there was no power outage throughout the day.
Then there are gas problems and heating problems, and the solutions are basically the same. In addition, the channels inside the Living Hell have been refined, and the original dozens of intestinal passages are combined with the building to be widened and connected in series. Without changing the large building body, all corridor rooms are connected together with the shortest route.
Based on Stark's design drawings, Bruce also designed a passage elevator suitable for the Living Hell. The elevator passage is designed as a grid with all connections, while the transportation warehouse can be transported from the residential corridor and through the elevator passage to the nearest living area.
In addition, the entire area has also installed the police station branch, emergency hospital, rooftop park, ecological forest on the roof, alley sports facilities, rooftop football stadium and other essential environmental facilities in three-dimensional cities.
Since this is a transformation jointly carried out by several major Gotham forces, the manpower and material resources used far exceed the demand, the efficiency is also extremely high, and the speed is very fast.
The most important thing is that under the threat of force, no resident can express different opinions or oppose transformation under the threat of force. With the efforts of a city to transform, Living Hell was almost quickly built into a complete honeycomb module.
The final thing to be carried out is appearance renovation, including installing more than 6,000 lights with sufficient lighting power, reinstalling insulation layers on the exterior walls of the building, designing window anti-theft measures, installing balconies, and beautifying the facade of the building.
Within the building, all corridors are repaired, unreasonable apartment types are renovated, and all shops in the living area are rebuilt and converted into modern stores.
In addition, fire-fighting equipment has been installed, including reserved fire passages, placing fire-fighting equipment, and installing fire sprinklers.
The final completion was the beautification of green space. Although there was no green space on the ground in the entire Living Hell area, the greening area of the roof, the greening between alleys, the balcony, etc. still barely reached the standard.
So when the residents of the living hell moved back, they found themselves living in a familiar but completely different place.
This is a modern, or even a futuristic three-dimensional cellular city. It is dense but not crowded, well-connected but not chaotic. It seems to be short of everything, but in fact it has complete supporting facilities. It seems that everything appears where it shouldn't have appeared, but it is very convenient.
More importantly, in addition to practical functions, aesthetics have also reached its peak. A steel forest rose from the ground, the handrails of metal passages turned into branches, and countless bright lights became leaves. The vitality that grew in the cold steel skeleton between the light spots was exactly in line with this crazy city. The shadows were crowded, the light and dark intertwined, and the cold and warmth were stacked. The city became increasingly huge, and humans seemed even smaller.
It is only 1987, and most cities are just the era of tall buildings and highways. Such a cyber-style city is at the forefront of even if it is achieved in the 21st century. It can be said to be shocking now.
Moreover, this is not just to improve the quality of residents' living. More importantly, two overpasses pass through this modular city center, which tripled the capacity of the entire street.
Chapter completed!