Page 108 - Vertical City

108 The vertical city

Available territories

The question of territories brings us back to issues of
governance and not to issues of physical availability.

It is indeed of no use to colonize green zones that,
amongst other considerations, are not connected to the
networks.

On the other hand it is increasingly evident to reaf-
fect the huge industrial zoning areas on which crude
buildings spread out, generally in horizontal manner
and on one level, amid a sea of roads and areas for
maneuvers, open-air storage and parking lots. They not
only provide all the space required for our small verti-
cal cities (in which industrial activities are vertically re-
implanted), but are already connected to all necessary
networks.

This reallocation of the territory is accompanied by
environmental remediation and extension of agricultu-
ral land, as well as a significant reduction in CO2 foot-
print. It is in sync with issues of every nature, which the
EU governance and its member states address.

The large size of industrial lots, with regard to the
low ground occupancy of our small vertical city limits
and simplifies the required real estate transactions.

Our present cities are bursting with available indus-
trial zones and vast railroad territories, even aviation
territories, on which some vertical neighborhoods are
already developed.

These latter, marked by an urbanism, an architecture
and manner of construction that conform to reductive