Excerpt: "RISE OF THE OMITOPIA" (A.GLASS JULY 1ST 2020)
"...As governments scramble to ensure that society does not descend into chaos in a vain hope for the pandemic to finally pass. If the human race and the cities that we inhabit will continue to face a crisis after crisis, despite moments of calm are built upon fragile foundations of wealth expansion and desire of exponential markets with debt, however if we remove the sociological and economical aspects. This could be looked at as an opportunity for a newer city to be created from a time of calamity. These are the cities of the Omnitopia.
Could a city, a megastructure project, begin to implement a pessimistic and optimistic aspect of urban dwelling under the Omnitopia concept? In the first part of this series, it is purposed that newer cities could be born out of both a calamity and stability, in turn reclassifying them as an Omni or duel purpose, reflecting in its habitation aspects of turmoil and peace. Rather than a Utopian idealism or a post gentrified broken Dystopia, but a city that is structured around the reality of indifference, that nature at times can perpetuate a crisis and the intrinsic need for human beings to be protected from the elements and also of its own folly. As the Covid-19 viral contagion that has affected every city in the world has shown, is the inability of an urban area to adjust to a widespread pandemic, but the lessons learned throughout the ages of viral outbreaks, has always been the same; the lawmakers and city planners moving too slow in locking down a city due to a contagion, more so now, with global markets and trade routes tightly interconnected. Has made the effort vastly harder to reduce the waves of infection rates. The question initially asked of creating an Omnitopia, also has a follow up question: Can a city automatically adjust to a crisis?..."
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Authored: A.Glass (July 1st 2020)
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