mtl008 Chapter 2517: Xiao Xiao Down (1)
Chapter 2517: Xiao Xiao Down (1)
Chapter 2517: Xiao Xiao Down (I)
Autumn in Gotham is always particularly bleak. After the plants that were never lush lose their last bit of green, even dryness and decay do not have enough weight. It is more like stripping off the gentle coat on the steel skeleton, allowing this cold city forest to return to its original appearance.
It is very appropriate to describe Gotham today as a steel forest. During the time when Bruce was applying for a doctorate, the Gotham building renovation project has been ongoing. So far, the entire East District has been renovated.
The design idea of the renovation project has always been to use limited land to accommodate the most people and to ensure their living needs to the greatest extent possible, at all costs.
So now the entire East District has solved the housing problem of Gotham's more than 800 million people from all walks of life with an area of less than one-fifth of the city, and the design concept of three-dimensional urban planning has played a significant role in this.
Skyscrapers around the world are basically used for commercial offices rather than residential buildings. Even so-called high-rise residential buildings rarely have more than 40 floors, not to mention super skyscrapers that often have or floors.
Obviously, it is not that developers do not want to accommodate more people with smaller plots of land, but that buildings that are too tall are no longer suitable for human habitation. Insulation, sound insulation, building stability, and even the carrying capacity of elevators are all issues that need to be addressed. Instead of spending time solving these problems, it is better to find ways to acquire more land.
But this was not a very difficult problem for the Wayne Group. After establishing the core principles of the entire building renovation project, these technical problems were 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 an area are connected to each other.
If I had to make an analogy, it would be a bit like the Roman Colosseum, where the columns and slabs support each other, enclosing the outer area while leaving separate living spaces inside.
This will allow the high-rise buildings outside to support each other, reducing the requirements for material strength, and there is no need to build separate community activity spaces. Even public facilities such as sports fields, gardens, and schools can be squeezed in.
Of course, the old issue is lighting. Although this generation of Gotham residents does not need sunlight, and were even almost melted by the intense sunlight that summer, the next generation of Gotham residents will have to live a normal life like other cities and cannot avoid the sun.
Normal planning designers would either choose to sacrifice building height or continue to study materials to ensure normal lighting in an area with dense skyscrapers.
But the Wayne Group doesn't follow the beaten path. They don't plan to move their own buildings, they plan to move the sun.
Of course, it is not really about moving the stars, but about using the dark clouds over Gotham to accumulate sunlight and release it precisely at the designated time.
For example, each building assembly has its own number. The number does not mean when the building area was built, but represents its 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 stored sunlight in the specified direction, ensuring that the sun can shine here throughout the entire lighting period.
Of course, this is not a long-term solution, because since the dark cloud controllable device started working, the dark clouds have been gradually decreasing. According to surveys and records conducted by professional testing and statistical teams, the dark 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, and they have now begun to study how to create a 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 converted into residences, and the occasional convenient commercial facilities cannot provide enough jobs.
That is to say, although they return to the East District at night, they still have to work in other districts during the day.
Because almost all the population was relocated to the East District, all the slums in the other three districts were completely cleared, freeing up an unimaginable amount of land.
Slums are like a stubborn disease in the United States. The slums that many people imagine to be extremely dilapidated and chaotic, with no water or electricity, and people crowded there waiting to die do exist, but there are more of them.
For example, an apartment community that has long lost its property maintenance, a neighborhood that has not had electricity due to a lawsuit with the power company, and a declining community that has not paid attention to keeping the streets clean, ultimately causing housing prices to plummet.
These communities will attract homeless people, making the entire community's security more chaotic. Even if they look new and good on the outside, the living quality of everyone living here will plummet, eventually forcing them to join or flee.
Many residents of these neighborhoods have been living in a state of endurance because they do not have the money to move to better neighborhoods, but they also have certain conditions to avoid becoming homeless.
After the East District was built, this type of people were basically attracted there, and the houses owned by this type of people were repurchased and renovated.
The fact is that only a minority of people live in truly hellish slums or can afford to live in ultra-luxury villas; the vast majority of ordinary Americans live in such communities.
Therefore, after concentrating the vast majority of the working class to live in the East District, the space freed up is astonishing.
In addition to allowing investors to build more commercial space, Gotham's industrial recovery can provide more jobs.
Although Gotham is severely polluted in many comics, there is little introduction to what kind of industries the city has.
In fact, such serious pollution comes from the chemical industry that made Gotham rich and based itself. It is not even the best in the entire East Coast, but it is well-known in the United States and even the world. It is also the aorta of the super group Wayne Group.
In addition, Gotham once had a very glorious history of shipbuilding industry, but unfortunately it is a long time ago and now the shipbuilding industry has become the mainstay of the metropolis.
However, in this type of manufacturing industry, the latecomer advantage still exists. Although dozens of shipyards during Gotham's glorious period went bankrupt in the last century, with the strong transfusion of Wayne Group, the three Gotham shipyards that were reacquired and integrated are gradually recovering.
As the chemical industry remains the industrial pillar of the entire city, pollution is a problem that must be faced.
Some people may expect the 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 emissions all require manpower and can give birth to many companies. It is also an important part of maintaining the operation of the city.
Right now Gotham’s main way of dealing with chemical pollution is still discharging it into the sea, but they have people in the sea.
Green Lantern Hal used the large amount of green lantern energy he had obtained before to set up energy filters in the three directions where Gotham borders the sea to decompose the remaining pollutants. Arthur sent out the sea people to conduct fixed-point monitoring around Gotham to ensure that there were no problems with the filtered seawater.
In addition to ensuring that the discharged wastewater does not cause harm to the marine environment, this system also allows Bruce Wayne, who controls the system, to catch the traitor who wants to discharge the wastewater as quickly as possible.
Once he has such sensitive monitoring methods, those companies that take advantage of the situation and fail to properly control pollution will be exposed, and Gotham's pollution treatment industries will be forced to carry out technological involution.
After all, if you don’t have good enough technology and the wastewater you discharge does not meet the standards, you will be immediately singled out by the Wayne Group. In order to maintain their position in the industry, they have to do something real.
Among the four areas of Gotham, the West Side, which was the first to develop and decline, has a large number of similar dilapidated communities. After the residential system in the East Side was built, many residents who remained in the West Side chose to sell their houses and move to new houses in the East Side.
In fact, a large area in the West District was originally an old industrial base. If the newly vacated space is taken into account, more than 70% of the West District can be used to build new industrial parks.
As a result, countless chemical industries and their surrounding industrial factories 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, which was once dominated by gangs and was the base camp of the Twelve Families. Most industries were built and developed around the gangs, and it was once a den of money for black and gray industries.
However, on the eve of the music festival, Godfather Falcone was assassinated and his whereabouts remain unknown. The twelve families almost fell apart. Most of the families that were able to successfully land have also transformed into modern corporate systems and no longer claim to be gangster 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 people in the black and gray industries to sell stolen goods, the entertainment industry is still the main industry here. The model follows that of the Imperial City, with the gambling industry and gambling tourism industry 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 public facilities.
And because the North District borders the land and has large tracts of suburban land waiting to be developed, more high-end entertainment venues such as golf courses, horse farms, and large-scale comprehensive sports venues are also being built.
The part of the West District bordering the land is used for agriculture. However, Gotham is the kind of city where, even if we ignore the pollution caused by human factors, its own land and climate conditions are not very suitable for agricultural development. Therefore, the area of farmland is relatively small, and there are more comprehensive farms with the purpose of receiving tourists.
The area within Gotham City is high in the west and low in the east, and the terrain becomes more rugged as you go south. The suburbs in the western area are basically hilly, and the groundwater conditions are not good enough, and the water resources are not as abundant as in the east. So even though there is sunshine and no pollution now, and there is Pamela, a plant expert, to protect it, the agricultural products produced can only be said to be for fun, and are not as good as the farmland project 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 construction.
(End of this chapter)