The most recent version of our Dezeen Weekly e-newsletter options Liam Younger’s suggestion that your entire inhabitants of planet Earth ought to reside in an enormous sustainable metropolis.
A brand new film by Younger proposes a hyper-dense, self-sufficient metropolis housing 10 billion individuals as a method of liberating the remainder of the world for rewilding. The architect additionally suggests returning stolen lands.
Constructed in response to the rules of the round financial system, the metropolis may very well be constructed on 0.02 per cent of the planetary floor, taking over an space “roughly the scale of a median US state”.
Commenters are horrified by the idea, with one calling it a “dystopian nightmare”.
Different tales on this week’s e-newsletter embody 12 of probably the most fascinating structure initiatives which can be due for completion in 2021, a picket cabin set on Lake Saimaa in Finland and information that UK structure {qualifications} will not be routinely recognised in EU international locations since Brexit.
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