Chapter 2543: Xiao Xiao Down (I)

Chapter 2517: The rustling down (I)

The autumn in Gotham is always particularly bleak. After the plants that have never been lush here have lost their last bit of green, even the dryness and decay are not enough. It is more like stripping off the gentle coat on the steel skeleton, allowing this cold urban forest to return to its original appearance.

It is really appropriate to describe Gotham today as a steel forest. During the time when Bruce applied for a doctorate, the Gotham building renovation project has been ongoing. So far, the East District has been completely renovated.

The design idea of ​​the renovation project has always been to use limited land to carry the most people and to ensure their living needs as much as possible, at all costs.

So now the entire East District has solved the housing problem of more than 8 million people from all walks of life in Gotham with an area of ​​less than one-fifth of the city. The design idea of ​​three-dimensional urban planning has played a major role in this.

Skyscrapers all over the world are basically used for commercial offices, not residential houses. Even the so-called high-rise residential buildings rarely have more than 40 floors, not to mention super buildings with 70 or 80 floors.

Obviously, it is not that the developer does not want to use a smaller plot of land to accommodate more people, but that the overly tall buildings are no longer suitable for human habitation. Insulation, sound insulation, building stability, and even the carrying capacity of elevators are all problems that need to be solved. Instead of solving these problems, it is better to find ways to get more land.

However, this is not a very difficult problem for the Wayne Group. After establishing the core policy of the entire building renovation project, these technical problems have been overcome one by one.

First of all, the building in the East District is not an isolated high-rise building. Many high-rise buildings in one area are interconnected.

If you have to make an analogy, it will be a bit like the Colosseum in Rome, where the columns and stone slabs support each other, enclosing the external area, and leaving a separate living space inside.

In this way, the high-rise buildings outside can support each other, reduce the requirements for material strength, and there is no need to build a separate community activity space. Even public facilities such as sports fields, gardens, and schools can be stuffed in.

Of course, the commonplace issue is lighting. Although this generation of Gotham residents does not need sunlight, and is even about to be melted by the excessive sunlight that summer, the next generation of Gotham residents must live a normal life like other cities and cannot avoid the sun.

Normal planners either choose to sacrifice the height of the building or continue to study materials to ensure normal lighting in an area with dense skyscrapers.

But the Wayne Group is not taking the usual path. They do not plan to move their own buildings, they plan to move the sun.

Of course, they are not really moving stars, but using the dark clouds over Gotham to accumulate sunlight and release it accurately at the specified time.

For example, each building assembly has its number. The number does not mean when the building area was built, but represents their geographical location, lighting direction and lighting time.

Once the time specified by the number is reached, the dark clouds will open a hole in that area and release the previously accumulated sunlight in the specified direction to ensure that the sun can be exposed here during the entire lighting period.

Of course, this is not a long-term solution, because since the cloud control device started working, the clouds have been gradually decreasing. According to the survey and records conducted by the professional testing and statistical team, the clouds may gradually dissipate in the next 50 years.

By then, lighting will become a big problem again, but the Wayne Group still does not want to move the building. They have already started to study the sun.

The people of Gotham have no opinion on this. In fact, although they live in the East District, the East District has basically been transformed into residences, and some convenient commercial facilities occasionally interspersed cannot provide enough jobs.

In other words, although they return to the East District to live at night, they still have to work in other districts during the day.

Because almost all the population has been moved to the East District, all the slums in the other three districts have been completely cleared, which has freed up an unimaginable amount of land.

Slums are like the stubborn disease on the land of the United States. The extremely dilapidated and chaotic slums that many people imagine, with no water and electricity, and people crowded there waiting to die, do exist, but there are more hidden slums.

For example, an apartment community that has long lost its property maintenance, a neighborhood that has been suing the power company and has not yet been electrified, and a declining community that has not paid attention to maintaining the cleanliness of the streets, which eventually led to the housing prices falling to the bottom.

These communities will attract homeless people, making the security of the entire community more chaotic. Even if they look new and good on the outside, the living quality of all people living here will plummet, and eventually they will have to join or flee.

Many residents of such neighborhoods have been in a state of endurance because they have no money to move to a better community, and they still have certain conditions to prevent themselves from falling into the situation of homelessness.

After the East District was built, these people were basically attracted there, and the houses owned by these people would be re-acquired and renovated.

The fact is that only a few people have fallen into the real hell-like slums and can afford to live in extremely high-end villas. Most ordinary Americans live in such communities.

So after the majority of the civilian class is concentrated in the East District, the space freed up is amazing.

In addition to allowing investors to build more commercial space, Gotham's industrial recovery can provide more jobs.

Although Gotham has extremely serious pollution in many comics, it is rarely introduced what kind of industry this city has.

In fact, such serious pollution comes from the chemical industry that Gotham made its fortune and based itself on. It is not even the best in the entire East Coast, but it is well-known in the United States and even the world, and it is also the main artery of the super group Wayne Group.

In addition, Gotham once had a very glorious history of shipbuilding industry, but unfortunately it is a certain distance away from now. Now the shipbuilding industry has become the pillar of the metropolis.

However, in this type of manufacturing industry, the latecomer advantage still exists. Although dozens of shipyards in Gotham's heyday went bankrupt in the last century, the three Gotham shipyards that were reacquired and integrated are gradually recovering under the strong blood transfusion of Wayne Group.

When the chemical industry is still the industrial pillar of the entire city, the pollution problem is a problem that must be faced.

Some people may expect Wayne Group to come up with some amazing technology to make chemical pollution disappear instantly.

But in fact, pollution treatment is also an industry that can provide a large number of jobs. Pollution detection, pollution treatment, and pollution discharge all require manpower, and many companies can be born. It is also an important link to maintain the operation of the city.

Now Gotham's main way to deal with chemical pollution is still to discharge it into the sea, but they have people in the sea.

Green Lantern Hal used the large amount of green light energy he had obtained before to arrange energy filters in the three directions where Gotham borders the sea to decompose the remaining pollutants. Arthur sent the sea people to monitor at fixed points around Gotham to ensure that there is no problem with the filtered seawater.

In addition to ensuring that the discharged wastewater does not harm the marine environment, this system also allows Bruce Wayne, who controls the system, to catch the insider who wants to discharge the wastewater as quickly as possible.

Once he has such a sensitive monitoring method, those insider companies that fish in troubled waters and do not properly manage pollution will be exposed, and it will force Gotham's pollution treatment industries to carry out technical involution.

After all, if you don't have good enough technology and the discharged sewage does not meet the standards, you will be immediately named by the Wayne Group. In order to maintain their position in the industry, they have to do something practical.

Among the four areas of Gotham, the West District, which developed the earliest and declined the first, has a large number of similar decaying communities. After the residential system in the East District was built, many residents left in the West District chose to sell their houses and live in new houses in the East District.

In fact, a large area of ​​the West District was originally an old industrial base. If you count the newly vacated space now, more than 70% of the West District area can be used to build new industrial parks.

Therefore, countless chemical industries and their surrounding industrial plants gathered here. In addition, super groups such as Wayne Group also established high-tech parks here, focusing on high-tech industries such as medical care, nuclear power, electronic chips, semiconductors, and new energy.

The North District is equivalent to the West District. It was once dominated by gangs and was the base camp of the Twelve Families. Most of the industries were built and developed around the gangs. It was once a den of money for the black and gray industries.

However, on the eve of the music festival, the Godfather Falcone was assassinated and his whereabouts are still unknown. The Twelve Families almost fell apart. Most of the families that were able to successfully land have also turned to modern corporate systems and no longer claim to be gang families. They are the main force in building the North District.

Because the North District itself has many entertainment areas for gang bosses to consume and entertain, and for black and gray industry personnel to sell stolen goods, so this place is still dominated by the entertainment industry. The model imitates the Imperial City, with the gambling industry and gambling tourism as the pillar industries, and also includes the sale of alcohol, tobacco and contraband, as well as some amusement parks, dance halls, theaters and other livelihood facilities.

And because the North District borders the land, there are large tracts of suburban land to be developed, so golf courses, horse farms, large comprehensive sports venues and other high-end entertainment venues are also being built one after another.

The part of the West District bordering the land is used for agriculture, but Gotham is the kind of city that, even if you put aside the pollution caused by human factors, its own land and climate conditions are not very suitable for the development of agriculture, so the area of ​​farmland is relatively small, and there are more comprehensive farms with tourist reception.

The area in Gotham City is high in the west and low in the east, and the terrain becomes more and more rugged as you go south. The suburbs in the western area are basically hilly, and the groundwater conditions are not good enough. The water resources are not as abundant as those in the east. So even if there is sunshine and no pollution now, and Pamela, a plant expert, is there to protect it, the agricultural products produced can only be said to be for fun, and they are not as good as the farmland projects that Metropolis started a few years ago.

However, Gotham's indoor planting project is quite successful. With the investment of Wayne Group, it cooperated with the Department of Biology and Chemistry of Gotham University and invested in the construction of a special plant cultivation industrial park in the West District. It focuses on the cultivation of precious and climate-resistant high-end ornamental plants. It became profitable less than a year after its completion.