what will the future earth/city like?

post ur pics!

big places full of dirt, overpopulation, poverty, crime and everything that's bad.

http://img37.echo.cx/my.php?image=thefuture7ty.png

http://img37.echo.cx/my.php?image=thefuture7ty.png

And after this we will al die because of a agresive virus like cholera or the plague!

Production would probably go slower, because we would have depleted all of our main energy sources. So that means less skyscrapers!!
I dont know, maybe there would be an alternative energy solution that is just as powerful and cheap as oil.

big places full of dirt, overpopulation, poverty, crime and everything that's bad.

I agree. Safety life on earth would not be possible any longer. Rich people will go to live on March.

Something like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/Coruscant.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Cour.jpg

^^^lol, I doubt that.

Something like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Cour.jpg

They've built cities in oceans???

Hehe someone has been watching too much Star Wars...although must admit Coruscant kicks ass.

Something like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/Coruscant.jpg
Is that Dubai 2050?

Something like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/Coruscant.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Cour.jpg

^ taken from star wars right?

Something like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/Coruscant.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Cour.jpg
^^^lol, I doubt that.

In thousands of years' time, it's possible. But not in the near future.

In thousands of years' time, it's possible. But not in the near future.

I wish I could life for thousands of years,I would love the feeling of living in a 7000m apartment building :)

I wish I could life for thousands of years,I would love the feeling of living in a 7000m apartment building :)

mee too :D

Well, maybe you will.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=201115

:)

This will kick arse. Sign me up!

The earth's population would quadruple and most of the planet will look like this

http://www.surrealplaces.com/cities/metropolis_V.jpg

Then we'll all be drafted to fight in world wars for control of arable land and water. I guess it beats fighting over oil.

maybe like this ??

It's going to depend a lot on where you live....

Free ways

http://img278.imageshack.us/my.php?image=freeway2838ch.jpg

Downtown

http://img278.imageshack.us/img278/4227/futurecity1952fl.jpg

http://img278.imageshack.us/img278/391/visionarycity0xe.jpg

^^ haha i like that frwy pic, seems possible i guess, lol. and that 2nd DT pic, that would b really cool

http://www.sinosplice.com/~aperifle/Future%20City.jpg

Something like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/Coruscant.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Cour.jpg
Lets hope that happens!

Lets hope that happens!

Seems more like a Star Wars pull out..

Lets hope that happens!

Let's not! In order for the earth to look the way it does in either of those pictures the planet's natural resources would have to be completely used up.

Not good.

Japan is building a "vertical city" that could possibly stand 3000m. They will build it in Tokyo which will be called Sky City.
http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/engi_e/c02/img/c02_1_03.jpg
http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/techno/63_sky/63_gif/s63_1.gif
It's like a city in one tower.

http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/techno/63_sky/63_gif/f63_1.gif
http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/techno/63_sky/63_gif/f63_2.gif
http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/techno/63_sky/63_gif/f63_3.gif

Japanese scientist said the tower will made possible by the year of 2160's at least.

http://img278.imageshack.us/my.php?image=freeway2838ch.jpg



kinda look like LA...

This might be New York in the future:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/future.jpg

Let's not! In order for the earth to look the way it does in either of those pictures the planet's natural resources would have to be completely used up.
Ergo, the economic rationale behind aggressive mining operations in the asteroid belt, Jupiter's moons, and a few TNOs found to be full of valuable stuff ripe for the taking.

Japan is building a "vertical city" that could possibly stand 3000m. They will build it in Tokyo which will be called Sky City.
http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/engi_e/c02/img/c02_1_03.jpg
http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/techno/63_sky/63_gif/s63_1.gif
It's like a city in one tower.

http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/techno/63_sky/63_gif/f63_1.gif
http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/techno/63_sky/63_gif/f63_2.gif
http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/techno/63_sky/63_gif/f63_3.gif

Japanese scientist said the tower will made possible by the year of 2160's at least.
that would be awesome

Talk about the awful earthquake in Tokyo, I hope this sky city be actually in the "SKY" and not on the ground, otherwise, it will be worst than WTC when it collides! :)

Japan is building a "vertical city" that could possibly stand 3000m. They will build it in Tokyo which will be called Sky City.
http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/engi_e/c02/img/c02_1_03.jpg
http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/techno/63_sky/63_gif/s63_1.gif
It's like a city in one tower.

http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/techno/63_sky/63_gif/f63_1.gif
http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/techno/63_sky/63_gif/f63_2.gif
http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/techno/63_sky/63_gif/f63_3.gif

Japanese scientist said the tower will made possible by the year of 2160's at least.

How about this for chicago?

Now...
http://hafd.org/~jordanb/junk/hermpano.jpg
Near futur...
http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/7112/chicago20355kq.png
:)

Talk about the awful earthquake in Tokyo, I hope this sky city be actually in the "SKY" and not on the ground, otherwise, it will be worst than WTC when it collides! :)

Theyve actually solved that problem if youd watch the Discovery Channel ;)

They do have a shock observer on the base of Sky City which was tested in Takaneka Research Institute. When there is an earthquake, a gigantic hydrolic arms holds the tower which is controlled by a computer and a sensor. It is currently being use in Tokyo City hall and many mulit-national corporations in Tokyo.. So it is a big help to achieve on building the Sky City.

Theyve actually solved that problem if youd watch the Discovery Channel ;)

They do have a shock observer on the base of Sky City which was tested in Takaneka Research Institute. When there is an earthquake, a gigantic hydrolic arms holds the tower which is controlled by a computer and a sensor. It is currently being use in Tokyo City hall and many mulit-national corporations in Tokyo.. So it is a big help to achieve on building the Sky City.

Of course Tokyo has to have some kind of shock observer of some sort in their skyscrapers, how else do you think that architects would risk the lifes of thousands by building their corporate skyscapers this tall. Talk about something of this gigantic as sky city, you can forget about it for a long, long time... :). Isn't Tokyo's under achievement for asias WTBs a sign to tell you that building the structure this tall and huge is just an concept, they better of building that kind of sky city in the places like Chicago, NYC and Dubai where the soil, floor plate and foundation are well off. So Tokyo do have big ambition, but I dont see it happen unless it actully build out of SKY and SKY only!

All land mass covered with this:
http://www.iucn.org/ourwork/ppet/programme/pa2002/wl/img/messages/poverty.jpg
and
http://www.nepaltrust.org/image%5Cpoverty.jpg

with a FEW bubbles of nice rich development/skyscrapers.

So Tokyo do have big ambition, but I dont see it happen unless it actully build out of SKY and SKY only!

If Sky City is that far-fetched from reality, you should see their Pyramid City vision :D

In thousands of years' time, it's possible. But not in the near future.

Think about where we were a thousand years ago... Even two hundred years ago.

I'm guessing 200 years till cities look similar.

Robots will do most of our labour work.

We will be scientists, cloners, intergalctic explorers and have really awsome jobs. We will have chips inside our brain and will not be born inside your mother, we will mine distant usless planets and explore the universe bit by bit, till we can send our children on camp to a planet similar to earth.

We will go through few large wars that kill abour 3 billion people all together but we will advance and move on, with new technology till we run into the edge of the universe get sucked down a black hole or the universe colapses in on us, mabey we will ba able to find other universes within a greater space time than we currently know of.

But they will be tall green, eco and cool as hell.

hopefully, something like this...

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y215/jafhoy/Palawan.jpg

hopefully, something like this...

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y215/jafhoy/Palawan.jpg

If the density is even lower, that will be more fantastic! :)

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~dmcmill/1995/Large/Dog-l.jpg

We need to contextualize this with a point in time as some visions are ok only for 50 years while the sky is the limit for those who are thinking hundreds of years ahead. Asuming no catastrophes, Bigger buildings in big complexes, burbs will be satellites in farther places but much better transport systems. Similar to cokelitros' vision.

The future starts today: The Rock Amsterdam U/C

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/5001/mahler41ig.jpg

The piramids have the future. New Amsterdam 2040:

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3497/newamsterdam4um.jpg

Future plan for Amsterdam is very interesting and wonderful. I like it. Imagination rules the world.

This would be cool:

http://www.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~aykut/anime/akira/3.jpg

Because the biggest growth is in poor countries, i'm affraid the most cities in the future will look like this:

http://host.uniroma3.it/facolta/politiche/peacekeeping/news/fratini/veduta%20di%20kabul%20.jpg
http://www.grijalvo.com/imagenes_t_Lagos_Nigeria/Lagos%20Bus%20Park---1.jpg

And the result will be a ghosttown:

http://blogs.bootsnall.com/janice/archives/images/Ghost%20Town-Fengdu.jpg

It'll really depend on energy, if we find something sustainable and unlimited, Earth would probably be Coruscant in a couple of centuries. But then again, since population tends to stop growing and start decreasing with better quality of life, then the creation of limitless energy would also stop the earth's population and start its decrease to a manageable level... which means that coruscant would be redundant... hmm, what a quagmire...

How about this for chicago?


Near futur...
http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/7112/chicago20355kq.png
:)
Lets hope Hollywood's Vision comes true,without the air pollution and Lake Michigan full of water! :)

hopefully, something like this...

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y215/jafhoy/Palawan.jpg

yes ive seen that vision... They will build it in El Nido, Philippines by 2018.. am i right? or.. somewhere in Palawan region.

Full of skyscrapers but with all the greens around it.

We should find another planet, get George Bush III to invade it for its natural resources and then build a Coruscant Dubai-style theme park on the moon.

American City in 2105 A.D

http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/831/spatialc6pd.jpg

cities will have giant robocops masquerading as supreme courts

http://img162.echo.cx/img162/4351/pic0203012pp.jpg

Orbiting space stations will never be cities. They'll be travel and shipment hubs, and people will certainly live aboard them... but they won't be cities, any more than an offshore oil rig or a cruise ship is a city. The economics simply aren't there. Or, put more succinctly, nobody is ever going to be individually or collectively rich enough to fund the construction of a space station whose main reason for existence is to give people a place to live. And if they somehow WERE rich enough, it will still be several orders of magnitude more cost-effective for them to build their new city on a planet, or even a moon. There might be occasional "colonies" clinging to old space stations that were cast off or abandoned, and there might even be a small (and expensive) space resort or two (especially over the next century or two). But nobody is ever going to pull out the metaphorical checkbook and place an order for a brand new space station with artificial parks and earth-like skyscrapers that will ultimately be inhabited by a million or more residents.

Make no mistake... space stations will be grimy, unpleasant places to live... with occasional pockets of luxury and opulence, of course, but mostly just dirty, noisy, raw industrial places where people temporarily live because they're either poor or getting paid enough money to make up for the horrid living conditions and let them retire early with lots of money (assuming they don't get killed first).

http://davidszondy.com/future/city/tomorrowcity.jpg

http://davidszondy.com/future/city/Metropolis%2001.jpg

I just love the "city of tomorrow" designed in 1939.