Page 26 - Vertical City

26 The vertical city

The drawings are made of parallel and orthogonal
lines. The buildings are within walking distance, close to
one another.

This also goes for European, Mediterranean, Eastern
and Asian civilizations in milder climates where the
dwellings are built in hard materials such as adobe, brick,
unbaked or baked clay and natural stone, and where
generally cities are large.

In North and South America, from Alaska to Patago-
nia (with the exception of the Aztec, Mayan and Olmec
empires), on the entire African continent below the
Tropic of Cancer 8 as well as in Australia, the construc-
tions were, and still are, temporal. Made of wood, plant
material and animal skins, they are generally organized
on one level, without the L/H rule, and traced in circular
or radiating lines: and that applies to both the construc-
tions and the lay-out of the village 9.

Their geometric composition is completely different,
without any relationship to Vitruvius or Pythagoras, but
centered on man and his interaction with nature and
the cosmos.

Their construction is open, prolific, without limita-
tions and belongs to the universe of negative Gaussian
curvature. Paradoxically, it also seems that the geometry
of the vertical city also takes this approach.

Progress in nanoscience (N), biology (B), informa-
tion technology (I) and cognitive science (C) (using the

8 Except for areas where the tsetse fly made the expansion of the
Islamic empire impossible because of its dependence on the horse.

9 And not cities, see footnote 19.