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S.H.O.: /* Alternative Government Models */

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‎Alternative Government Models

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S.H.O. at 05:06, 31 July 2017

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S.H.O.: /* Alternative Government Models */

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‎Alternative Government Models

S.H.O.: /* Further comments: "Sky cars" vs. SkyWay Systems */

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‎Further comments: "Sky cars" vs. SkyWay Systems

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‎Further comments: "Sky cars" vs. SkyWay Systems

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 Under Smallocracy, a municipal corporation's human and capital resources are gradually relieved from the duties associated with very extensive vehicle, road, pipe, and cable infrastructure. The human and capital resources of the municipal corporation are then gradually reallocated to very extensive pedestrian, atrium, and courtyard infrastructure. Significant consideration should be made to increase the access to light that citizens and visitors have while maintaining a sense of privacy, a particular concern since Smallocracy implies significant vertical development.
-[[File:Nephroide-kreise.svg.png|thumb|'''An alternative geometry for a Smallocracy town based on the Nephroid shape and its "pencil of circles":''' An alternative town layout for Smallocracy based on the Nephroid shape and its  "pencil of circles" would consist of two pairs of gate-like high-rise Twin Towers, with bases centered on the four smallest circular plots, indicated by the four smallest pink rings, connected by a circular "pearl necklace", indicated by the dotted blue ring, of about 30 hemispherical conjoined mid-rise buildings of 7 stories (28 meters) tall, each being 56 meters in diameter, with about 7,000 square meters for residential space, 3,500 square meters of commercial space, and 2,000 square meters of mixed space. The ring is surrounded by a mesh-grid of 100 blocks where 800 low-rise single-family residential homes (each having an average foot print of about 200 square meters) for about 2,400 people and/or recreational facilities would be located. At the antipodes of the ring, two Twin Tower pairs would be spaced apart about 650 meters along on a regional rail transportation corridor. The footpaths would be located at a ground level and are indicated by the pink circles, and the mid-rise buildings would have a 6-meter wide promenade/veranda that runs along a circular course (blue ring) at the mid-level (the 4th floor) with a mean circumference of 2 kilometers. Inside the 30 or so mid-rise "pearl necklace" hemispherical buildings, high-density residential would be located on the bottom four levels (> 210,000 square meters or 2,100 ares) for about 4,000 people, and commercial activities and public commons would take place on the top four levels (> 80,000 square meters), with the fourth level being mixed-used (> 50,000 square meters), including schools. Surrounded by the ring are the lens-shaped plots, where hospital facilities, manufacturing, warehousing, and indoor farming would be located near transportation corridor, making convenient the automated loading and unloading of the suspended cargo-holding rail carriages. These facilities would be covered by thick green roofs capable of supporting shrubs or larger foliage which may be connected by a series of foot bridges to the promenade/veranda so as to promote their usage. Trees and other foliage would be planted/retained on the diamond plots lining the space between the transportation corridor and these interior facilities.]]
+[[File:Nephroide-kreise.svg.png|thumb|'''An alternative geometry for a Smallocracy town based on the Nephroid shape and its "pencil of circles":''' An alternative town layout for Smallocracy based on the Nephroid shape and its  "pencil of circles" would consist of two pairs of gate-like high-rise Twin Towers, with bases centered on the four smallest circular plots, indicated by the four smallest pink rings, connected by a circular "pearl necklace", indicated by the dotted blue ring, of about 30 hemispherical conjoined mid-rise buildings of 7 stories (28 meters) tall, each being 56 meters in diameter, with about 7,000 square meters for residential space, 3,500 square meters of commercial space, and 2,000 square meters of mixed space. The ring is surrounded by a mesh-grid of 100 blocks where 800 low-rise single-family residential homes (each having an average foot print of about 200 square meters) for about 2,400 people and/or recreational facilities would be located. At the antipodes of the ring, two Twin Tower pairs would be spaced apart about 650 meters along on a regional rail transportation corridor. The footpaths would be located at a ground level and are indicated by the pink circles, and the mid-rise buildings would have a 6-meter wide promenade/veranda that runs along a circular course (blue ring) at the mid-level (the 4th floor) with a mean circumference of 2 kilometers. Inside the 30 or so mid-rise "pearl necklace" hemispherical buildings, high-density residential would be located on the bottom four levels (> 210,000 square meters or 2,100 ares) for about 4,000 people, and commercial activities and public commons would take place on the top four levels (> 80,000 square meters), with the fourth level being mixed-used (> 50,000 square meters), including schools. Surrounded by the ring are the lens-shaped plots, where hospital facilities, manufacturing, warehousing, and indoor farming would be located near the transportation corridor, making convenient the automated loading and unloading of the suspended cargo-holding rail carriages. These facilities would be covered by thick green roofs capable of supporting shrubs or larger foliage which may be connected by a series of foot bridges to the promenade/veranda so as to promote their usage. Trees and other foliage would be planted/retained on the diamond plots lining the space between the transportation corridor and these interior facilities.]]
 Instead of relying on a monolithic building like most city-in-a-building ideas, in the case of Smallocracy, one option is to use steel suspended foot-bridges like the "Drac bridge" and "Ebron bridge" in France which could be used to provide direct horizontal connections. Cost and time of bridge construction could be reduced substantially using drone lifts. These bridges would connect to platforms (20 m x 5 m) every three stories between gate-like twin towers (120 m x 25 m x 10 m) which together with the platforms have a footprint of 500 square meters (25 m x 20 m). These gate-like twin towers would be constructed out of cross laminated timber<ref>http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/tall-wood-architect-gives-away-technology-build-wood-buildings-thirty-storeys-high.html</ref><ref>http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/nine-storey-apartment-built-of-wood-in-nine-weeks-by-four-workers.html</ref> with no more than two units per side per floor. Area per floor per unit will be limited to 100 square meters (1 are), with larger homes requiring more floors, up to 3. There should be no more than three floors between deck levels and no more than 9 deck levels with a total height no more than 30 stories. Each slender tower should be capable of residential square footage up to 12,000 square meters supporting approximately 60 two-story "Houston-sized" residences or 120 single-floor "NYC-sized" residences, with an estimated combined population of 150 to 300 people, assuming 2.5 people per household. Each tower therefore eliminates between 65 and 130 cars at time, assuming the American average of 439 cars per 1000<ref>http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/its-official-western-europeans-have-more-cars-per-person-than-americans/261108/</ref>, replacing them with 9 steel suspended foot bridges. The floor plan of the structure could be rotated by a gradual angle at every deck level to increase architectural variety, and total height should be capped at 120 meters. There should be 4 meters between floors so as to permit vaulted ceilings and loft arrangements in all units. All residential units must have windows on at least three sides and come with a kitchen, a separate dining room, utility room, master suite, and a second bathroom.

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 Under Smallocracy, a municipal corporation's human and capital resources are gradually relieved from the duties associated with very extensive vehicle, road, pipe, and cable infrastructure. The human and capital resources of the municipal corporation are then gradually reallocated to very extensive pedestrian, atrium, and courtyard infrastructure. Significant consideration should be made to increase the access to light that citizens and visitors have while maintaining a sense of privacy, a particular concern since Smallocracy implies significant vertical development.
-[[File:Nephroide-kreise.svg.png|thumb|'''An alternative geometry for a Smallocracy town based on the Nephroid shape and its "pencil of circles":''' An alternative town layout for Smallocracy based on the Nephroid shape and its  "pencil of circles" would consist of two pairs of gate-like high-rise Twin Towers, with bases centered on the four smallest circular plots, indicated by the four smallest pink rings, connected by a circular "pearl necklace", indicated by the dotted blue ring, of about 30 hemispherical conjoined mid-rise buildings of 7 stories (28 meters) tall, each being 56 meters in diameter, with about 7,000 square meters for residential space, 3,500 square meters of commercial space, and 2,000 square meters of mixed space. The ring is surrounded by a mesh-grid of 100 blocks where 800 low-rise single-family residential homes (each having an average foot print of about 200 square meters) for about 2,400 people and/or recreational facilities would be located. At the antipodes of the ring, two Twin Tower pairs would be spaced apart about 650 meters along on a regional rail transportation corridor. The footpaths would be located at a ground level and are indicated by the pink circles, and the mid-rise buildings would have a 6-meter wide promenade/veranda that runs along a circular course (blue ring) at the mid-level (the 4th floor) with a mean circumference of 2 kilometers. Inside the 30 or so mid-rise "pearl necklace" hemispherical buildings, high-density residential would be located on the bottom four levels (> 210,000 square meters or 2,100 ares) for about 4,000 people, and commercial activities and public commons would take place on the top four levels (> 80,000 square meters), with the fourth level being mixed-used (> 50,000 square meters), including schools. Surrounded by the ring are the lens-shaped plots, where hospital facilities, manufacturing, warehousing, and indoor farming would be located near transportation corridor, making convenient the automated loading and unloading of the suspended cargo-holding rail carriages. These facilities would be covered by thick green roofs capable of supporting shrubs or larger foliage which may be connected by a series of foot bridges to the promenade/veranda so as to promote their usage. Trees would be planted on the squares lining the space between the ring and these interior facilities.]]
+[[File:Nephroide-kreise.svg.png|thumb|'''An alternative geometry for a Smallocracy town based on the Nephroid shape and its "pencil of circles":''' An alternative town layout for Smallocracy based on the Nephroid shape and its  "pencil of circles" would consist of two pairs of gate-like high-rise Twin Towers, with bases centered on the four smallest circular plots, indicated by the four smallest pink rings, connected by a circular "pearl necklace", indicated by the dotted blue ring, of about 30 hemispherical conjoined mid-rise buildings of 7 stories (28 meters) tall, each being 56 meters in diameter, with about 7,000 square meters for residential space, 3,500 square meters of commercial space, and 2,000 square meters of mixed space. The ring is surrounded by a mesh-grid of 100 blocks where 800 low-rise single-family residential homes (each having an average foot print of about 200 square meters) for about 2,400 people and/or recreational facilities would be located. At the antipodes of the ring, two Twin Tower pairs would be spaced apart about 650 meters along on a regional rail transportation corridor. The footpaths would be located at a ground level and are indicated by the pink circles, and the mid-rise buildings would have a 6-meter wide promenade/veranda that runs along a circular course (blue ring) at the mid-level (the 4th floor) with a mean circumference of 2 kilometers. Inside the 30 or so mid-rise "pearl necklace" hemispherical buildings, high-density residential would be located on the bottom four levels (> 210,000 square meters or 2,100 ares) for about 4,000 people, and commercial activities and public commons would take place on the top four levels (> 80,000 square meters), with the fourth level being mixed-used (> 50,000 square meters), including schools. Surrounded by the ring are the lens-shaped plots, where hospital facilities, manufacturing, warehousing, and indoor farming would be located near transportation corridor, making convenient the automated loading and unloading of the suspended cargo-holding rail carriages. These facilities would be covered by thick green roofs capable of supporting shrubs or larger foliage which may be connected by a series of foot bridges to the promenade/veranda so as to promote their usage. Trees and other foliage would be planted/retained on the diamond plots lining the space between the transportation corridor and these interior facilities.]]
 Instead of relying on a monolithic building like most city-in-a-building ideas, in the case of Smallocracy, one option is to use steel suspended foot-bridges like the "Drac bridge" and "Ebron bridge" in France which could be used to provide direct horizontal connections. Cost and time of bridge construction could be reduced substantially using drone lifts. These bridges would connect to platforms (20 m x 5 m) every three stories between gate-like twin towers (120 m x 25 m x 10 m) which together with the platforms have a footprint of 500 square meters (25 m x 20 m). These gate-like twin towers would be constructed out of cross laminated timber<ref>http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/tall-wood-architect-gives-away-technology-build-wood-buildings-thirty-storeys-high.html</ref><ref>http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/nine-storey-apartment-built-of-wood-in-nine-weeks-by-four-workers.html</ref> with no more than two units per side per floor. Area per floor per unit will be limited to 100 square meters (1 are), with larger homes requiring more floors, up to 3. There should be no more than three floors between deck levels and no more than 9 deck levels with a total height no more than 30 stories. Each slender tower should be capable of residential square footage up to 12,000 square meters supporting approximately 60 two-story "Houston-sized" residences or 120 single-floor "NYC-sized" residences, with an estimated combined population of 150 to 300 people, assuming 2.5 people per household. Each tower therefore eliminates between 65 and 130 cars at time, assuming the American average of 439 cars per 1000<ref>http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/its-official-western-europeans-have-more-cars-per-person-than-americans/261108/</ref>, replacing them with 9 steel suspended foot bridges. The floor plan of the structure could be rotated by a gradual angle at every deck level to increase architectural variety, and total height should be capped at 120 meters. There should be 4 meters between floors so as to permit vaulted ceilings and loft arrangements in all units. All residential units must have windows on at least three sides and come with a kitchen, a separate dining room, utility room, master suite, and a second bathroom.

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 Under Smallocracy, a municipal corporation's human and capital resources are gradually relieved from the duties associated with very extensive vehicle, road, pipe, and cable infrastructure. The human and capital resources of the municipal corporation are then gradually reallocated to very extensive pedestrian, atrium, and courtyard infrastructure. Significant consideration should be made to increase the access to light that citizens and visitors have while maintaining a sense of privacy, a particular concern since Smallocracy implies significant vertical development.
-[[File:Nephroide-kreise.svg.png|thumb|'''An alternative geometry for a Smallocracy town based on the Nephroid shape and its "pencil of circles":''' An alternative town layout for Smallocracy based on the Nephroid shape and its  "pencil of circles" would consist of two pairs of gate-like high-rise Twin Towers, with bases centered on the four smallest circular plots, indicated by the four smallest pink rings, connected by a circular "pearl necklace", indicated by the dotted blue ring, of about 30 hemispherical conjoined mid-rise buildings of 7 stories (28 meters) tall, each being 56 meters in diameter, with about 7,000 square meters for residential space, 3,500 square meters of commercial space, and 2,000 square meters of mixed space. surrounded by a mesh-grid of low-rise residential and recreational facilities. The two Twin Tower pairs would be spaced apart about 650 meters along on a regional rail transportation corridor. The footpaths would be located at a ground level and are indicated by the pink circles, and the mid-rise buildings would have a promenade that runs along a circular course (blue ring) at the mid-level (the 4th floor) with a mean circumference of 2 kilometers. High-density residential would be located on the bottom four levels (> 210,000 square meters or 2,100 ares), and commercial activities and public commons would take place on the top four levels (> 105,000 square meters), with the fourth level being mixed-used (> 60,000 square meters), including schools. Surrounded by the ring are the lens-shaped plots, where hospital facilities, manufacturing, warehousing, and indoor farming would be located near transportation corridor, making convenient the automated loading and unloading of the suspended cargo-holding rail carriages. These facilities would be covered by thick green roofs capable of supporting shrubs or larger foliage which may be connected by a series of foot bridges to the promenade so as to promote their usage.]]
+[[File:Nephroide-kreise.svg.png|thumb|'''An alternative geometry for a Smallocracy town based on the Nephroid shape and its "pencil of circles":''' An alternative town layout for Smallocracy based on the Nephroid shape and its  "pencil of circles" would consist of two pairs of gate-like high-rise Twin Towers, with bases centered on the four smallest circular plots, indicated by the four smallest pink rings, connected by a circular "pearl necklace", indicated by the dotted blue ring, of about 30 hemispherical conjoined mid-rise buildings of 7 stories (28 meters) tall, each being 56 meters in diameter, with about 7,000 square meters for residential space, 3,500 square meters of commercial space, and 2,000 square meters of mixed space. The ring is surrounded by a mesh-grid of 100 blocks where 800 low-rise single-family residential homes (each having an average foot print of about 200 square meters) for about 2,400 people and/or recreational facilities would be located. At the antipodes of the ring, two Twin Tower pairs would be spaced apart about 650 meters along on a regional rail transportation corridor. The footpaths would be located at a ground level and are indicated by the pink circles, and the mid-rise buildings would have a 6-meter wide promenade/veranda that runs along a circular course (blue ring) at the mid-level (the 4th floor) with a mean circumference of 2 kilometers. Inside the 30 or so mid-rise "pearl necklace" hemispherical buildings, high-density residential would be located on the bottom four levels (> 210,000 square meters or 2,100 ares) for about 4,000 people, and commercial activities and public commons would take place on the top four levels (> 80,000 square meters), with the fourth level being mixed-used (> 50,000 square meters), including schools. Surrounded by the ring are the lens-shaped plots, where hospital facilities, manufacturing, warehousing, and indoor farming would be located near transportation corridor, making convenient the automated loading and unloading of the suspended cargo-holding rail carriages. These facilities would be covered by thick green roofs capable of supporting shrubs or larger foliage which may be connected by a series of foot bridges to the promenade/veranda so as to promote their usage. Trees would be planted on the squares lining the space between the ring and these interior facilities.]]
 Instead of relying on a monolithic building like most city-in-a-building ideas, in the case of Smallocracy, one option is to use steel suspended foot-bridges like the "Drac bridge" and "Ebron bridge" in France which could be used to provide direct horizontal connections. Cost and time of bridge construction could be reduced substantially using drone lifts. These bridges would connect to platforms (20 m x 5 m) every three stories between gate-like twin towers (120 m x 25 m x 10 m) which together with the platforms have a footprint of 500 square meters (25 m x 20 m). These gate-like twin towers would be constructed out of cross laminated timber<ref>http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/tall-wood-architect-gives-away-technology-build-wood-buildings-thirty-storeys-high.html</ref><ref>http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/nine-storey-apartment-built-of-wood-in-nine-weeks-by-four-workers.html</ref> with no more than two units per side per floor. Area per floor per unit will be limited to 100 square meters (1 are), with larger homes requiring more floors, up to 3. There should be no more than three floors between deck levels and no more than 9 deck levels with a total height no more than 30 stories. Each slender tower should be capable of residential square footage up to 12,000 square meters supporting approximately 60 two-story "Houston-sized" residences or 120 single-floor "NYC-sized" residences, with an estimated combined population of 150 to 300 people, assuming 2.5 people per household. Each tower therefore eliminates between 65 and 130 cars at time, assuming the American average of 439 cars per 1000<ref>http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/its-official-western-europeans-have-more-cars-per-person-than-americans/261108/</ref>, replacing them with 9 steel suspended foot bridges. The floor plan of the structure could be rotated by a gradual angle at every deck level to increase architectural variety, and total height should be capped at 120 meters. There should be 4 meters between floors so as to permit vaulted ceilings and loft arrangements in all units. All residential units must have windows on at least three sides and come with a kitchen, a separate dining room, utility room, master suite, and a second bathroom.

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 Under Smallocracy, a municipal corporation's human and capital resources are gradually relieved from the duties associated with very extensive vehicle, road, pipe, and cable infrastructure. The human and capital resources of the municipal corporation are then gradually reallocated to very extensive pedestrian, atrium, and courtyard infrastructure. Significant consideration should be made to increase the access to light that citizens and visitors have while maintaining a sense of privacy, a particular concern since Smallocracy implies significant vertical development.
-[[File:Nephroide-kreise.svg.png|thumb|'''An alternative geometry for a Smallocracy town based on the Nephroid shape and its "pencil of circles":''' An alternative town layout for Smallocracy based on the Nephroid shape and its  "pencil of circles" would consist of two pairs of gate-like high-rise Twin Towers, with bases centered on the four smallest circular plots, indicated by the four smallest pink rings, connected by a circular "pearl necklace", indicated by the dotted blue ring, of about 30 hemispherical conjoined mid-rise buildings of 7 stories (28 meters) tall, each being 56 meters in diameter, with about 7000 square meters for residential space, 3500 square meters of commercial space, and 2000 square meters of mixed space. surrounded by a mesh-grid of low-rise residential and recreational facilities. The two Twin Tower pairs would be spaced apart about 650 meters along on a regional rail transportation corridor. The footpaths would be located at a ground level and are indicated by the pink circles, and the mid-rise buildings would have a promenade that runs along a circular course (blue ring) at the mid-level (the 4th floor) with a mean circumference of 2 kilometers. High-density residential would be located on the bottom four levels (> 210,000 square meters or 2,100 ares), and commercial activities and public commons would take place on the top four levels (> 105,000 square meters), with the fourth level being mixed-used (> 60,000 square meters), including schools. Surrounded by the ring are the lens-shaped plots, where hospital facilities, manufacturing, warehousing, and indoor farming would be located near transportation corridor, making convenient the automated loading and unloading of the suspended cargo-holding rail carriages. These facilities would be covered by thick green roofs capable of supporting shrubs or larger foliage which may be connected by a series of foot bridges to the promenade so as to promote their usage.]]
+[[File:Nephroide-kreise.svg.png|thumb|'''An alternative geometry for a Smallocracy town based on the Nephroid shape and its "pencil of circles":''' An alternative town layout for Smallocracy based on the Nephroid shape and its  "pencil of circles" would consist of two pairs of gate-like high-rise Twin Towers, with bases centered on the four smallest circular plots, indicated by the four smallest pink rings, connected by a circular "pearl necklace", indicated by the dotted blue ring, of about 30 hemispherical conjoined mid-rise buildings of 7 stories (28 meters) tall, each being 56 meters in diameter, with about 7,000 square meters for residential space, 3,500 square meters of commercial space, and 2,000 square meters of mixed space. surrounded by a mesh-grid of low-rise residential and recreational facilities. The two Twin Tower pairs would be spaced apart about 650 meters along on a regional rail transportation corridor. The footpaths would be located at a ground level and are indicated by the pink circles, and the mid-rise buildings would have a promenade that runs along a circular course (blue ring) at the mid-level (the 4th floor) with a mean circumference of 2 kilometers. High-density residential would be located on the bottom four levels (> 210,000 square meters or 2,100 ares), and commercial activities and public commons would take place on the top four levels (> 105,000 square meters), with the fourth level being mixed-used (> 60,000 square meters), including schools. Surrounded by the ring are the lens-shaped plots, where hospital facilities, manufacturing, warehousing, and indoor farming would be located near transportation corridor, making convenient the automated loading and unloading of the suspended cargo-holding rail carriages. These facilities would be covered by thick green roofs capable of supporting shrubs or larger foliage which may be connected by a series of foot bridges to the promenade so as to promote their usage.]]
 Instead of relying on a monolithic building like most city-in-a-building ideas, in the case of Smallocracy, one option is to use steel suspended foot-bridges like the "Drac bridge" and "Ebron bridge" in France which could be used to provide direct horizontal connections. Cost and time of bridge construction could be reduced substantially using drone lifts. These bridges would connect to platforms (20 m x 5 m) every three stories between gate-like twin towers (120 m x 25 m x 10 m) which together with the platforms have a footprint of 500 square meters (25 m x 20 m). These gate-like twin towers would be constructed out of cross laminated timber<ref>http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/tall-wood-architect-gives-away-technology-build-wood-buildings-thirty-storeys-high.html</ref><ref>http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/nine-storey-apartment-built-of-wood-in-nine-weeks-by-four-workers.html</ref> with no more than two units per side per floor. Area per floor per unit will be limited to 100 square meters (1 are), with larger homes requiring more floors, up to 3. There should be no more than three floors between deck levels and no more than 9 deck levels with a total height no more than 30 stories. Each slender tower should be capable of residential square footage up to 12,000 square meters supporting approximately 60 two-story "Houston-sized" residences or 120 single-floor "NYC-sized" residences, with an estimated combined population of 150 to 300 people, assuming 2.5 people per household. Each tower therefore eliminates between 65 and 130 cars at time, assuming the American average of 439 cars per 1000<ref>http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/its-official-western-europeans-have-more-cars-per-person-than-americans/261108/</ref>, replacing them with 9 steel suspended foot bridges. The floor plan of the structure could be rotated by a gradual angle at every deck level to increase architectural variety, and total height should be capped at 120 meters. There should be 4 meters between floors so as to permit vaulted ceilings and loft arrangements in all units. All residential units must have windows on at least three sides and come with a kitchen, a separate dining room, utility room, master suite, and a second bathroom.
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 There would be private backyards, but all of those would be grouped together at the base of the residences and reachable by a gardened trail connected by spiral stairs to the decks, which are equipped with chair lifts to accommodate the disabled. Multiple garden trails would be connected together by a knee-deep Lazy River and/or other type of amusement track depending on the regional climate. Hardware and garden supplies would be located at ground level off the garden trails for easy access to the private backyards. Large backyards may feature their own guest cottages and greenhouses, as well as swimming pools and game courts. Backyards will be teeming with activity because they will cost extra and be available to any tenant who actually wants one. The philosophy here is that no backyard should go to waste. The municipality covers all expenses for the garden trails, and collaboration will be established between home owners associations and gardeners. Friends and family of tenants may choose to live entirely within tiny homes within single "backyard" plots. To maintain the backyard nature of the area, shelters other than greenhouses and open pavilions may not cover more than 50% of the area of the yard, while greenhouses and pavilions may occupy the whole plot without buffer. The minimum yard size is 100 square meters (or 1 are). Event planning and recreation organizations may rent adjacent backyard plots up to 10,000 square meters (or 1 hectare), large enough for a small cozy ranch, foreign-inspired public spa, or a haunted house. The tile-like backyard spaces or "land apps" will serve the backbone of an informal economy between tenants and create a sense of community.
-In close proximity to the slender residential towers, are two similarly-constructed "hub towers", one for non-hazardous manufacturing, warehousing, and other miscellaneous light industrial activities, and another tower for retail, recreational activities, education, and day care. Hospitals and other essential services would be evenly split between the towers. Each would have a slender foot print comparable to five of the gate-like residential towers arranged as an plus-sign for better visibility. The foot print of each "hub tower" occupies five 25 m x 20 m areas for a total of 5000 square meters for both towers.  At the bottom of each hub tower, will be an atrial garden, professionally-managed food court, hotels, and theater hall which doubles as a commercial cinema. Retail outlets would line the path from the cinemas to the garden trails which provide connections between greenhouses, hardware stores, maker spaces, and sports venues.
+In close proximity to the slender residential towers, are two similarly-constructed "hub towers", one for non-hazardous manufacturing, warehousing, and other miscellaneous light industrial activities, and another tower for retail, recreational activities, education, and day care. Hospitals and other essential services would be evenly split between the towers. Each would have a slender foot print comparable to five of the gate-like residential towers arranged as an plus-sign for better visibility. The foot print of each "hub tower" occupies five 25 m x 20 m areas for a total of 5,000 square meters for both towers.  At the bottom of each hub tower, will be an atrial garden, professionally-managed food court, hotels, and theater hall which doubles as a commercial cinema. Retail outlets would line the path from the cinemas to the garden trails which provide connections between greenhouses, hardware stores, maker spaces, and sports venues.
 These "hub towers" must be within a 6 minute walking distance for healthy seniors, or about 600 meters,<ref>http://www.resmedjournal.com/article/S0954-6111(05)00326-4/abstract</ref> to any residential tower in the district, for a maximum 12 minute walk between any residence in the 1.2 kilometer diameter circle. The hub towers will have a total floor area around 100,000 to 150,000 square meters depending on ceiling height and may support the residents and visitors for around 60 twin residence towers, which will have a combined living area of 720,000 square meters (or 0.72 square kilometers) of living area, for a district population somewhere between 9,000 and 18,000 people. ''The results in a population density potentially higher than New York City with average residential floor area per person between 80 and 40 square meters'', and this doesn't even include the yard space. The gross circular foot print of each hub region including residential towers, hub tower, yards, Lazy River/amusement track, etc. should be approximately 1.13 square kilometers compared to the estimated 0.035 square kilometers of physical building footprint, ''which provides over 96% of the land within district limits, or about 1.1 million square meters (110 hectares) for non-tower area which may be reserved for yards, gardens, recreation, lakes, ocean, and wild habitat''. Six bowling pin-style arrangements may be adopted for the residential towers, which provides the 60 twin residence towers or (1+2+3+4)*6 divided evenly in 6 groups of 10 in six 60 degree segments, with each tower pair being spaced from the other far enough from the other to fit a soccer stadium or one of the aforementioned 1 hectare plots.

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 Under Smallocracy, a municipal corporation's human and capital resources are gradually relieved from the duties associated with very extensive vehicle, road, pipe, and cable infrastructure. The human and capital resources of the municipal corporation are then gradually reallocated to very extensive pedestrian, atrium, and courtyard infrastructure. Significant consideration should be made to increase the access to light that citizens and visitors have while maintaining a sense of privacy, a particular concern since Smallocracy implies significant vertical development.
-[[File:Nephroide-kreise.svg.png|thumb|'''An alternative geometry for a Smallocracy town based on the Nephroid shape and its "pencil of circles":''' An alternative town layout for Smallocracy based on the Nephroid shape and its  "pencil of circles" would consist of two pairs of gate-like high-rise Twin Towers (smallest pink circles) connected by a circular "pearl necklace" (dotted blue ring) of about 30 hemispherical conjoined mid-rise buildings of 7 stories (28 meters) tall, each being 56 meters in diameter, with about 7000 square meters for residential space, 3500 square meters of commercial space, and 2000 square meters of mixed space. surrounded by a mesh-grid of low-rise residential and recreational facilities. The two Twin Tower pairs would be spaced apart about 650 meters along on a regional rail transportation corridor. The footpaths would be located at a ground level and are indicated by the pink circles, and the mid-rise buildings would have a promenade that runs along a circular course (blue ring) at the mid-level (the 4th floor) with a mean circumference of 2 kilometers. High-density residential would be located on the bottom four levels (> 210,000 square meters or 2,100 ares), and commercial activities and public commons would take place on the top four levels (> 105,000 square meters), with the fourth level being mixed-used (> 60,000 square meters), including schools. Surrounded by the ring are the lens-shaped plots, where hospital facilities, manufacturing, warehousing, and indoor farming would be located near transportation corridor, making convenient the automated loading and unloading of the suspended cargo-holding rail carriages. These facilities would be covered by thick green roofs capable of supporting shrubs or larger foliage which may be connected by a series of foot bridges to the promenade so as to promote their usage.]]
+[[File:Nephroide-kreise.svg.png|thumb|'''An alternative geometry for a Smallocracy town based on the Nephroid shape and its "pencil of circles":''' An alternative town layout for Smallocracy based on the Nephroid shape and its  "pencil of circles" would consist of two pairs of gate-like high-rise Twin Towers, with bases centered on the four smallest circular plots, indicated by the four smallest pink rings, connected by a circular "pearl necklace", indicated by the dotted blue ring, of about 30 hemispherical conjoined mid-rise buildings of 7 stories (28 meters) tall, each being 56 meters in diameter, with about 7000 square meters for residential space, 3500 square meters of commercial space, and 2000 square meters of mixed space. surrounded by a mesh-grid of low-rise residential and recreational facilities. The two Twin Tower pairs would be spaced apart about 650 meters along on a regional rail transportation corridor. The footpaths would be located at a ground level and are indicated by the pink circles, and the mid-rise buildings would have a promenade that runs along a circular course (blue ring) at the mid-level (the 4th floor) with a mean circumference of 2 kilometers. High-density residential would be located on the bottom four levels (> 210,000 square meters or 2,100 ares), and commercial activities and public commons would take place on the top four levels (> 105,000 square meters), with the fourth level being mixed-used (> 60,000 square meters), including schools. Surrounded by the ring are the lens-shaped plots, where hospital facilities, manufacturing, warehousing, and indoor farming would be located near transportation corridor, making convenient the automated loading and unloading of the suspended cargo-holding rail carriages. These facilities would be covered by thick green roofs capable of supporting shrubs or larger foliage which may be connected by a series of foot bridges to the promenade so as to promote their usage.]]
 Instead of relying on a monolithic building like most city-in-a-building ideas, in the case of Smallocracy, one option is to use steel suspended foot-bridges like the "Drac bridge" and "Ebron bridge" in France which could be used to provide direct horizontal connections. Cost and time of bridge construction could be reduced substantially using drone lifts. These bridges would connect to platforms (20 m x 5 m) every three stories between gate-like twin towers (120 m x 25 m x 10 m) which together with the platforms have a footprint of 500 square meters (25 m x 20 m). These gate-like twin towers would be constructed out of cross laminated timber<ref>http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/tall-wood-architect-gives-away-technology-build-wood-buildings-thirty-storeys-high.html</ref><ref>http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/nine-storey-apartment-built-of-wood-in-nine-weeks-by-four-workers.html</ref> with no more than two units per side per floor. Area per floor per unit will be limited to 100 square meters (1 are), with larger homes requiring more floors, up to 3. There should be no more than three floors between deck levels and no more than 9 deck levels with a total height no more than 30 stories. Each slender tower should be capable of residential square footage up to 12,000 square meters supporting approximately 60 two-story "Houston-sized" residences or 120 single-floor "NYC-sized" residences, with an estimated combined population of 150 to 300 people, assuming 2.5 people per household. Each tower therefore eliminates between 65 and 130 cars at time, assuming the American average of 439 cars per 1000<ref>http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/its-official-western-europeans-have-more-cars-per-person-than-americans/261108/</ref>, replacing them with 9 steel suspended foot bridges. The floor plan of the structure could be rotated by a gradual angle at every deck level to increase architectural variety, and total height should be capped at 120 meters. There should be 4 meters between floors so as to permit vaulted ceilings and loft arrangements in all units. All residential units must have windows on at least three sides and come with a kitchen, a separate dining room, utility room, master suite, and a second bathroom.

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 Under Smallocracy, a municipal corporation's human and capital resources are gradually relieved from the duties associated with very extensive vehicle, road, pipe, and cable infrastructure. The human and capital resources of the municipal corporation are then gradually reallocated to very extensive pedestrian, atrium, and courtyard infrastructure. Significant consideration should be made to increase the access to light that citizens and visitors have while maintaining a sense of privacy, a particular concern since Smallocracy implies significant vertical development.
 Instead of relying on a monolithic building like most city-in-a-building ideas, in the case of Smallocracy, one option is to use steel suspended foot-bridges like the "Drac bridge" and "Ebron bridge" in France which could be used to provide direct horizontal connections. Cost and time of bridge construction could be reduced substantially using drone lifts. These bridges would connect to platforms (20 m x 5 m) every three stories between gate-like twin towers (120 m x 25 m x 10 m) which together with the platforms have a footprint of 500 square meters (25 m x 20 m). These gate-like twin towers would be constructed out of cross laminated timber<ref>http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/tall-wood-architect-gives-away-technology-build-wood-buildings-thirty-storeys-high.html</ref><ref>http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/nine-storey-apartment-built-of-wood-in-nine-weeks-by-four-workers.html</ref> with no more than two units per side per floor. Area per floor per unit will be limited to 100 square meters (1 are), with larger homes requiring more floors, up to 3. There should be no more than three floors between deck levels and no more than 9 deck levels with a total height no more than 30 stories. Each slender tower should be capable of residential square footage up to 12,000 square meters supporting approximately 60 two-story "Houston-sized" residences or 120 single-floor "NYC-sized" residences, with an estimated combined population of 150 to 300 people, assuming 2.5 people per household. Each tower therefore eliminates between 65 and 130 cars at time, assuming the American average of 439 cars per 1000<ref>http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/its-official-western-europeans-have-more-cars-per-person-than-americans/261108/</ref>, replacing them with 9 steel suspended foot bridges. The floor plan of the structure could be rotated by a gradual angle at every deck level to increase architectural variety, and total height should be capped at 120 meters. There should be 4 meters between floors so as to permit vaulted ceilings and loft arrangements in all units. All residential units must have windows on at least three sides and come with a kitchen, a separate dining room, utility room, master suite, and a second bathroom.
 There would be private backyards, but all of those would be grouped together at the base of the residences and reachable by a gardened trail connected by spiral stairs to the decks, which are equipped with chair lifts to accommodate the disabled. Multiple garden trails would be connected together by a knee-deep Lazy River and/or other type of amusement track depending on the regional climate. Hardware and garden supplies would be located at ground level off the garden trails for easy access to the private backyards. Large backyards may feature their own guest cottages and greenhouses, as well as swimming pools and game courts. Backyards will be teeming with activity because they will cost extra and be available to any tenant who actually wants one. The philosophy here is that no backyard should go to waste. The municipality covers all expenses for the garden trails, and collaboration will be established between home owners associations and gardeners. Friends and family of tenants may choose to live entirely within tiny homes within single "backyard" plots. To maintain the backyard nature of the area, shelters other than greenhouses and open pavilions may not cover more than 50% of the area of the yard, while greenhouses and pavilions may occupy the whole plot without buffer. The minimum yard size is 100 square meters (or 1 are). Event planning and recreation organizations may rent adjacent backyard plots up to 10,000 square meters (or 1 hectare), large enough for a small cozy ranch, foreign-inspired public spa, or a haunted house. The tile-like backyard spaces or "land apps" will serve the backbone of an informal economy between tenants and create a sense of community.
 In close proximity to the slender residential towers, are two similarly-constructed "hub towers", one for non-hazardous manufacturing, warehousing, and other miscellaneous light industrial activities, and another tower for retail, recreational activities, education, and day care. Hospitals and other essential services would be evenly split between the towers. Each would have a slender foot print comparable to five of the gate-like residential towers arranged as an plus-sign for better visibility. The foot print of each "hub tower" occupies five 25 m x 20 m areas for a total of 5000 square meters for both towers.  At the bottom of each hub tower, will be an atrial garden, professionally-managed food court, hotels, and theater hall which doubles as a commercial cinema. Retail outlets would line the path from the cinemas to the garden trails which provide connections between greenhouses, hardware stores, maker spaces, and sports venues.

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	There would be private backyards, but all of those would be grouped together at the base of the residences and reachable by a gardened trail connected by spiral stairs to the decks, which are equipped with chair lifts to accommodate the disabled. Multiple garden trails would be connected together by a knee-deep Lazy River and/or other type of amusement track depending on the regional climate. Hardware and garden supplies would be located at ground level off the garden trails for easy access to the private backyards. Large backyards may feature their own guest cottages and greenhouses, as well as swimming pools and game courts. Backyards will be teeming with activity because they will cost extra and be available to any tenant who actually wants one. The philosophy here is that no backyard should go to waste. The municipality covers all expenses for the garden trails, and collaboration will be established between home owners associations and gardeners. Friends and family of tenants may choose to live entirely within tiny homes within single "backyard" plots. To maintain the backyard nature of the area, shelters other than greenhouses and open pavilions may not cover more than 50% of the area of the yard, while greenhouses and pavilions may occupy the whole plot without buffer. The minimum yard size is 100 square meters (or 1 are). Event planning and recreation organizations may rent adjacent backyard plots up to 10,000 square meters (or 1 hectare), large enough for a small cozy ranch, foreign-inspired public spa, or a haunted house. The tile-like backyard spaces or "land apps" will serve the backbone of an informal economy between tenants and create a sense of community.		There would be private backyards, but all of those would be grouped together at the base of the residences and reachable by a gardened trail connected by spiral stairs to the decks, which are equipped with chair lifts to accommodate the disabled. Multiple garden trails would be connected together by a knee-deep Lazy River and/or other type of amusement track depending on the regional climate. Hardware and garden supplies would be located at ground level off the garden trails for easy access to the private backyards. Large backyards may feature their own guest cottages and greenhouses, as well as swimming pools and game courts. Backyards will be teeming with activity because they will cost extra and be available to any tenant who actually wants one. The philosophy here is that no backyard should go to waste. The municipality covers all expenses for the garden trails, and collaboration will be established between home owners associations and gardeners. Friends and family of tenants may choose to live entirely within tiny homes within single "backyard" plots. To maintain the backyard nature of the area, shelters other than greenhouses and open pavilions may not cover more than 50% of the area of the yard, while greenhouses and pavilions may occupy the whole plot without buffer. The minimum yard size is 100 square meters (or 1 are). Event planning and recreation organizations may rent adjacent backyard plots up to 10,000 square meters (or 1 hectare), large enough for a small cozy ranch, foreign-inspired public spa, or a haunted house. The tile-like backyard spaces or "land apps" will serve the backbone of an informal economy between tenants and create a sense of community.
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		+	[[File:Nephroide-kreise.svg.png\|thumb\|'''An alternative geometry for a Smallocracy town based on the Nephroid shape and its "pencil of circles":''' An alternative town layout for Smallocracy based on the Nephroid shape and its "pencil of circles" would consist of two pairs of gate-like high-rise Twin Towers (smallest pink circles) connected by a circular "pearl necklace" (dotted blue ring) of about 30 hemispherical conjoined mid-rise buildings of 7 stories (28 meters) tall, each being 56 meters in diameter, with about 7000 square meters for residential space, 3500 square meters of commercial space, and 2000 square meters of mixed space. surrounded by a mesh-grid of low-rise residential and recreational facilities. The two Twin Tower pairs would be spaced apart about 650 meters along on a regional rail transportation corridor. The footpaths would be located at a ground level and are indicated by the pink circles, and the mid-rise buildings would have a promenade that runs along a circular course (blue ring) at the mid-level (the 4th floor) with a mean circumference of 2 kilometers. High density residential would be located on the bottom four levels, and commercial activities and public commons would take place on the top four levels, with the fourth level being mixed-used, including schools. Hospital facilities, manufacturing, warehousing, and indoor farming would be located on the lens-shaped plots and would have close access to the transportation corridor for automated loading and unloading from the cargo-holding rail carriages. These facilities would be covered by thick green roofs capable of supporting shrubs or larger foliage.]]

	In close proximity to the slender residential towers, are two similarly-constructed "hub towers", one for non-hazardous manufacturing, warehousing, and other miscellaneous light industrial activities, and another tower for retail, recreational activities, education, and day care. Hospitals and other essential services would be evenly split between the towers. Each would have a slender foot print comparable to five of the gate-like residential towers arranged as an plus-sign for better visibility. The foot print of each "hub tower" occupies five 25 m x 20 m areas for a total of 5000 square meters for both towers. At the bottom of each hub tower, will be an atrial garden, professionally-managed food court, hotels, and theater hall which doubles as a commercial cinema. Retail outlets would line the path from the cinemas to the garden trails which provide connections between greenhouses, hardware stores, maker spaces, and sports venues.		In close proximity to the slender residential towers, are two similarly-constructed "hub towers", one for non-hazardous manufacturing, warehousing, and other miscellaneous light industrial activities, and another tower for retail, recreational activities, education, and day care. Hospitals and other essential services would be evenly split between the towers. Each would have a slender foot print comparable to five of the gate-like residential towers arranged as an plus-sign for better visibility. The foot print of each "hub tower" occupies five 25 m x 20 m areas for a total of 5000 square meters for both towers. At the bottom of each hub tower, will be an atrial garden, professionally-managed food court, hotels, and theater hall which doubles as a commercial cinema. Retail outlets would line the path from the cinemas to the garden trails which provide connections between greenhouses, hardware stores, maker spaces, and sports venues.

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 It turns out that developers behind "Rail Skyway Systems" have various development projects in mind that are in a few ways similar to what I proposed in Smallocracy. See more at the following links:
-* https://skywayinvestgroup.com/en/for-customers/development-projects/ ''DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS''
+* '''"DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS"''' (info article) - https://skywayinvestgroup.com/en/for-customers/development-projects/
-* http://rsw-systems.com/news/skyway-linear-city-in-abu-dhabi?lang=en ''"SKYWAY LINEAR CITY IN ABU DHABI"''
+* '''"SKYWAY LINEAR CITY IN ABU DHABI"''' (blog article) - http://rsw-systems.com/news/skyway-linear-city-in-abu-dhabi?lang=en
-* http://www.yunitskiy.com/author/2015/2015_06.pdf ''"SkyWay Linear City in Abu Dhabi"''
+* '''"SkyWay Linear City in Abu Dhabi"''' (pdf article) - http://www.yunitskiy.com/author/2015/2015_06.pdf
 ===Vertical Cities Videos===

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	Multiple hubs should be connected by a personal rapid transit system similar to SkyTran<ref>http://www.skytran.com</ref> or SkyWay<ref>http://rsw-systems.com/</ref> in order to minimize guideway costs and construction time. Hubs should be separated from each other by a distance no less than 2 kilometers in order to maintain a low impact on the ecosystem.		Multiple hubs should be connected by a personal rapid transit system similar to SkyTran<ref>http://www.skytran.com</ref> or SkyWay<ref>http://rsw-systems.com/</ref> in order to minimize guideway costs and construction time. Hubs should be separated from each other by a distance no less than 2 kilometers in order to maintain a low impact on the ecosystem.
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		+	[[File:Discovered_Skyway_Systems_in_Mid-April_2017_soon_after_United_Airlines_incident.png\|thumb\|I discovered SkyWay Systems in Mid-April 2017 as a result of a YouTube comment stating that its high efficiency is superior to the inefficiency of flying cars. Sincerely, ''[[User:S.H.O.\|S.H.O.]] <sup>[[User_talk:S.H.O.\|talk]]</sup>'' 18:44, 30 July 2017 (PDT)]]

	===Further comments: "Sky cars" vs. SkyWay Systems===		===Further comments: "Sky cars" vs. SkyWay Systems===