Is This What Urban Buildings Will Look Like In 2050?
Original story at Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation• 4 mentions • 3 months ago
With internal farms, walls that convert CO2 to oxygen, and even the ability to personalize itself based on your DNA, this concept for the building of the future is a sight to behold.2050 is far enough off to imagine the urban environment will be very different from today. But, from current trends, we know a few things are likely. Three-quarters of people will live in a city, or 6.75 billion of the projected 9 billion global total. Everyone will have grown up with the Internet, and its successors. And city residents with have access to less natural resources than today, making regeneration and efficiency more of a priority.Based on this, and extrapolating
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19 Feb
Sustainable Cities @cities2cities
Is This What Urban Buildings Will Look Like In 2050? http://t.co/dboXlKEF
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Richard Florida @Richard_Florida
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Philips @LivableCities
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