Chapter 115 Gotham in Progress (Part 2)

As Stark told the story, a model of a future city gradually emerged in Schiller's mind.

Just as Stark said, this is indeed very suitable for Gotham.

The main problem of Gotham now is that no matter how the logistics operation system is changed, it will always be in a very saturated state, that is, there will be no redundancy for some emergencies.

Don't forget that the future Gotham stage will be full of accidents, various villains will appear in turn, and natural disasters and man-made disasters will follow one after another. If an accident occurs, the city will be paralyzed for half a day, so it's better not to develop it. Everyone will be exhausted by sewing and patching every day.

But now, Stark has proposed the concept of a three-dimensional city for the first time. It is not accurate to say that it is a three-dimensional city, but a new kind of honeycomb city, in which each honeycomb is an independent structure, and it has its own independent ecosystem, just like a living hell.

To achieve this, it is not enough to build one building after another on a plane. The space cannot be fully utilized, so a three-dimensional structure must be created.

Roads can not only be close to the ground, but also travel through the city. Parking lots and parks can also be built in mid-air. Apartments and houses can be stacked in three dimensions.

In fact, this concept has been proposed for a long time, but as Stark said, Gotham is simply a perfect experimental place, because here, due to some historical development reasons, many areas of Gotham have spontaneously formed this model, such as the living hell.

Indeed, the living hell is a slum, extremely dirty and messy, but this does not mean that it is not part of the three-dimensional city. The living hell has initially achieved what Stark said, regional independence, high space utilization, and an independent urban ecosystem, these are the most critical characteristics.

This means that as long as the water supply, power supply and living environment problems are solved, a small piece of honeycomb has been completed.

The same is true for other areas of Gotham. As long as they are transformed piece by piece, one honeycomb after another will be completed directly.

At that time, we only need to combine these honeycombs and glue them together with a transportation system that connects the entire city, and Gotham City will become a real three-dimensional city.

This is Gotham's unique advantage. If other cities want to achieve this structure, they almost have to tear down the entire city and rebuild it.

The version of the publishing plan that Bruce brought out was actually very advanced. In Bruce's version of the plan, he designed a modern city, which was almost perfect from the urban ecosystem to the logistics operation system. The only problem was that to achieve this effect, it was basically equivalent to tearing down Gotham and rebuilding it.

The manpower, material resources, and various costs required to rebuild such a megacity are simply astronomical figures. Even the Wayne Group can't afford to rebuild such a megacity.

And if it is to be rebuilt, a large number of people will need to be resettled, which is exactly what Bruce and Falcone are worried about.

You can't just say that if you want to tear down the house, everyone will live on the street, right?

To accommodate these people, new houses need to be built. In this way, all construction costs and time costs will double. For this reason, they think this plan can only be used as a last resort plan, and hope Schiller can give a better suggestion.

Stark is indeed worthy of being a genius cursed by knowledge. Perhaps it is not a problem of knowledge, but compared to Batman, he is more imaginative and creative.

Three-dimensional city, until this era of Marvel, no city has successfully realized it. There may be some cities that naturally have this attribute due to terrain conditions, but in fact, they are not fully realized, and may only have a prototype in a small area.

But if this plan is applied to Gotham, it does achieve the effect of low reconstruction cost, less time investment, and a large amount of traffic redundancy.

Soon, the enthusiastic Stark used Jarvis's computing power to come up with a detailed plan, which was divided into three versions and six transformation plans. Then he proudly put his hands on his hips and said, "Who is the most powerful genius in the world now? Of course it's Stark!"

"Indeed." Bruce gave an answer after seeing this plan: "Your friend is indeed a genius."

Although he didn't understand why the symbiote in his mind made a series of horrified grunts and hid after seeing the handwriting above, Bruce was still very satisfied with it.

"Is he interested in developing in Gotham? Wayne Group will give him a very good reward." Bruce asked.

"It's probably difficult. He doesn't lack money, and he thinks highly of himself. I'm afraid he won't be employed by anyone."

"A common problem of geniuses." Bruce said, but he didn't think it was a big deal. There are so many geniuses in the world, it's impossible for them all to work for him, and with Gotham's reputation, basically no one with a hole in his brain will come.

After showing this plan to the architectural planning experts they hired at a high price, everyone was amazed. In this day and age, without the help of computers, general urban planning plans would not give too many details, and most of them would be confirmed after the specific construction.

But because Stark has a cross-era super artificial intelligence Jarvis to help him calculate, the plan he gave can basically be said to be more detailed than the assembly instructions of Lego, almost accurate to the height of each wall, the load-bearing range of each column, the laying method of each wire, etc.

In short, if you take these data and build it step by step, you will get a brand new Gotham City as easy as building blocks.

And because the changes are relatively small, most of them are added, and there is no need for large-scale personnel relocation and resettlement. At most, a small-scale relocation will be carried out when the original building is repaired, which is completely within the acceptable range of Falcone and Wayne Group.

Schiller made a suggestion to them, that is, you can't eat a fat man in one bite, there is no need to start from the most difficult part, you can find the simplest place to transform it, anyway, if there is any mistake, it will not get worse.

That's right, this place is a living hell. The living environment here is really hard to describe. Bruce and Falcone have been here before, and they agree with Schiller's point of view that no matter how much this hellhole is changed, it will not be worse than it is now.

Therefore, the pilot of the first phase of Gotham City's transformation plan was placed in the living hell.

Of course, there are residents in the living hell, and there are a lot of them. When they heard that there was going to be a reconstruction here, they were unwilling but had no choice. If there was only one Wayne Group, it would be fine, but the key is that there is also a Falcone family, which is the leader of the gangs in Gotham. They can't resist at all. When they heard that there was compensation, they had planned to move out with the money and never come back.

But to their surprise, this transformation was not a grand reconstruction, but more like a patchwork.

First, the construction team formed by the gangster families hired a large number of people to clean up the place inside and out.

It turns out that there is no garbage disposal facility in the living hell. Most of the garbage is thrown out directly through the window, which has turned it into a huge garbage dump. It took hundreds of people and several days to clean up the garbage.

Then the water conservancy engineering team entered the scene and began to comprehensively transform the water pipes here. According to Stark's design drawings, the living water facilities of the three-dimensional city should not only include full access to tap water, but also include solar water heaters and water purification devices.

The water heater was directly omitted by Schiller. The people of Gotham don't care so much. It's only 1987 now. If you want hot water, can't you boil it yourself?

But the water purification device is indeed necessary. At this time, Bruce came on the scene. He set up a regional water purification pump, which was buried underground in each hive city module to purify and filter the circulating water in the area, and it was also convenient to filter the boiling water and discharge it into the sea.

Batman's move was naturally extraordinary. The power of this water purification device can fully meet the needs of domestic water recycling, and it is also very environmentally friendly.

Next, water pipes were laid to access tap water. There were more than 2,800 water points in the entire living hell. After completion, water was almost fully diverted to households, and there was no need to use public wells or pumps.

Next, the power system was introduced. This part was also designed by Bruce himself. Gotham City has sufficient electricity, but the utilization rate is not high.

All the artificial wires and antennas in the living hell were removed. Stark had already calculated the best line design plan with the help of Jarvis. When it landed, Batman appeared to make further localized transformations. After the line was laid, it was possible to achieve that there was no wire in the whole city, but the utilization rate of electricity was extremely high, and there was no power outage all day.

Then there were gas and heating problems, and the solutions were basically the same.

In addition, the passages inside the living hell were also refined. The original dozens of intestinal passages were combined with the building, widened and connected in series. On the basis of not changing the main body of the building, all the corridors and rooms were connected together by the shortest route.

Based on Stark's design, Bruce also designed a channel elevator suitable for the living hell. The elevator channel is designed to be a grid that extends in all directions, and the transport warehouse can be transported from the residential corridor through the elevator channel to the nearest living area.

In addition, the entire area has also been equipped with police station branches, emergency hospitals, rooftop parks, ecological forests on the top of buildings, alley sports facilities, rooftop football fields and other necessary environmental facilities for three-dimensional cities.

Since this is a transformation jointly carried out by several major forces in Gotham, the manpower and material resources mobilized far exceed the demand, the efficiency is also extremely high, and the speed is very fast.

The most important thing is that under the threat of force, the residents' wishes can be ignored, and no resident has come out to express different opinions or oppose the transformation. With the full transformation of the city's strength, the living hell was almost quickly built into a complete honeycomb module.

The last thing to do is to transform the appearance, including installing more than 6,000 electric lights with sufficient lighting power, reinstalling insulation layers on the exterior walls of the building, designing window anti-theft measures, adding balconies, and beautifying the exterior facades of the building.

Inside the building, all corridors were repaired, unreasonable apartment types were remodeled, and all shops in the living area were rebuilt and converted into modern stores.

In addition, firefighting equipment was installed, including reserved fire passages, firefighting equipment, and fire sprinklers.

The last thing to be completed was the green land beautification. Although there was no green land on the ground in the entire living hell area, the greening area barely met the standard, including the greening of the rooftops, the greening of the alleys, and the greening of the balconies.

So, when the residents of the living hell who moved out moved back, they found that they lived in a familiar but completely different place.

This is a modern, even futuristic three-dimensional honeycomb city, dense but not crowded, well-connected but not chaotic, seemingly lacking in the east and the west, but actually complete in supporting facilities, as if everything appeared where it should not appear, but very convenient.

More importantly, in addition to practical functions, the aesthetics has also reached its peak.

A steel forest rises from the ground, the metal passage handrails become branches, countless bright lights become leaves, and the vitality growing in the cold steel skeleton between the flying light spots is just right for this crazy city. People gather, light and dark interweave, cold and warm overlap, the city becomes bigger and bigger, and humans seem smaller.

It is only 1987 now, and most cities are still in the era of high-rise buildings and roads. Such a cyber-style city is cutting-edge enough even in the 21st century, and it can be said to be shocking now.

And this is not just to improve the living quality of citizens. More importantly, two overpasses pass through the center of this modular city, which directly triples the transportation capacity of the entire street.

Many truck drivers do not take the road on the ground in the next block, but take the overpass instead. The transportation capacity of this area rises instantly. Moreover, once an accident occurs on one road, a sign will light up at the entrance, and the driver can choose another road, which leaves a lot of redundancy for logistics and transportation.

Ten thousand words for today!

That's right! The name of this book has been changed!

As for why this name was chosen, it was because if it was too short, it would cause duplication and was not allowed, and it also needed some gimmicks to attract new readers. It's better than before, right? (Aknuckles)