1 00:00:01,003 --> 00:00:04,951 Cities 2 00:00:05,091 --> 00:00:07,379 (Jacque Fresco) The circular scheme or plan 3 00:00:07,519 --> 00:00:10,808 brings each district closer to the central dome 4 00:00:10,948 --> 00:00:13,182 which contains the medical, food, 5 00:00:13,322 --> 00:00:16,137 shopping, everything else that people need. 6 00:00:16,414 --> 00:00:20,633 The circular arrangement makes it easier to operate, 7 00:00:20,841 --> 00:00:23,797 using far less energy than any other system; 8 00:00:24,317 --> 00:00:27,452 and if you start at one end of the city and go through the city, 9 00:00:27,592 --> 00:00:31,086 you always return to the same place. Whereas in a linear city, 10 00:00:31,226 --> 00:00:35,297 you go to one end, you have to backtrack to get to the same point. 11 00:00:35,437 --> 00:00:39,495 So, the circular scheme is by far the most efficient. 12 00:00:39,635 --> 00:00:41,904 When cities are contracted in the future, 13 00:00:42,044 --> 00:00:46,113 they will be contracted as a whole, as an entire system. 14 00:00:46,253 --> 00:00:49,569 In that way, all of the parts and components 15 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:55,286 will be delivered in stages: like sequence one will be the underground, 16 00:00:55,426 --> 00:00:58,020 the heating systems, the electric generators, 17 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:01,789 the piping systems and the recycling systems. 18 00:01:01,929 --> 00:01:05,894 Then, after that, the next layer which would serve 19 00:01:06,407 --> 00:01:09,502 as the first layer that contains the architecture, 20 00:01:09,642 --> 00:01:11,862 the foundations for all the buildings; 21 00:01:12,002 --> 00:01:16,122 and after that, the erection of structures up from the foundations, 22 00:01:16,685 --> 00:01:19,549 starting with the central portion of the city, 23 00:01:19,689 --> 00:01:23,646 working its way out to the different radial sectors 24 00:01:23,786 --> 00:01:26,796 and then out to the final housing sectors 25 00:01:26,936 --> 00:01:29,327 and then to the agricultural belt 26 00:01:29,467 --> 00:01:32,064 and then to the recreation areas. 27 00:01:33,806 --> 00:01:36,663 The cities themselves are prefabricated. 28 00:01:36,803 --> 00:01:41,091 Most of the elements that comprise the structures of the cities 29 00:01:41,231 --> 00:01:43,521 are interchangeable, interlocking. 30 00:01:43,661 --> 00:01:46,714 They are designed so they can be disassembled, 31 00:01:46,854 --> 00:01:48,951 just as they were assembled. 32 00:01:49,091 --> 00:01:53,145 The new cities will be updated continuously. 33 00:01:54,847 --> 00:01:59,039 As the waters are piped into the cities, they are checked. 34 00:01:59,179 --> 00:02:02,047 To whatever extent contamination exists, 35 00:02:02,187 --> 00:02:05,001 the water processing plants evaporate the water, 36 00:02:05,141 --> 00:02:07,345 recondense it and cleanse it. 37 00:02:07,485 --> 00:02:10,248 In other words, all waters piped into the city 38 00:02:10,388 --> 00:02:14,215 will be monitored constantly, not by 'a' monitoring system, 39 00:02:14,355 --> 00:02:16,538 but several monitoring systems. 40 00:02:16,678 --> 00:02:19,664 The same is true of the air above and around the city; 41 00:02:19,804 --> 00:02:21,806 it's constantly monitored. 42 00:02:25,366 --> 00:02:28,616 All of the rooftops are photovoltaic. 43 00:02:29,332 --> 00:02:32,045 All the skin, outer skin of the building. 44 00:02:32,185 --> 00:02:36,753 converts solar radiation into electrical energy. 45 00:02:36,893 --> 00:02:40,334 As we move beyond the third sector, 46 00:02:40,474 --> 00:02:44,108 we come to tennis courts, parks. 47 00:02:44,248 --> 00:02:46,686 Beyond that is the residential district 48 00:02:46,826 --> 00:02:49,313 which consists of lakes, waterfalls, 49 00:02:49,453 --> 00:02:52,310 all kinds of the beautiful plants throughout the area; 50 00:02:52,450 --> 00:02:55,913 and each house is concealed by plants, 51 00:02:56,053 --> 00:02:58,276 so you can't see another building. 52 00:02:58,416 --> 00:03:03,496 Some people prefer, as in the next sector, to live in apartment houses. 53 00:03:03,636 --> 00:03:08,175 The apartments have drama groups, recreation, swimming pools, 54 00:03:08,315 --> 00:03:11,854 discussion groups, and so many other facilities. 55 00:03:11,994 --> 00:03:14,369 The disadvantage of living in a private home 56 00:03:14,509 --> 00:03:17,511 is that you have to go to the various places 57 00:03:17,651 --> 00:03:19,896 to access the same things. 58 00:03:20,559 --> 00:03:23,375 Instead of motor vehicles in the city, 59 00:03:23,515 --> 00:03:27,907 all transportation is carried on by circular conveyors 60 00:03:28,047 --> 00:03:30,347 that we call transveyors. 61 00:03:30,487 --> 00:03:35,048 They move radially, circumferentially and vertically. 62 00:03:35,188 --> 00:03:39,261 They serve the function of elevators, buses, conveyors; 63 00:03:39,822 --> 00:03:41,780 but if you wish to go to another city, 64 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:44,962 you can take an elevator down beneath the central dome 65 00:03:45,102 --> 00:03:48,934 which has maglev trains, etc., that would transport you 66 00:03:49,074 --> 00:03:53,113 to the center of any other city or any other region. 67 00:03:54,555 --> 00:03:58,716 There will be no waste products, just as in nature there are no waste products. 68 00:03:58,856 --> 00:04:01,348 All materials that we would formerly call waste 69 00:04:01,488 --> 00:04:06,018 would be recycled and converted into new products. 70 00:04:08,261 --> 00:04:11,480 When the city hits a certain number of people, 71 00:04:12,099 --> 00:04:15,534 we stop the development, and let everything go back to nature 72 00:04:15,674 --> 00:04:18,569 between this and the next city. 73 00:04:22,983 --> 00:04:26,052 It doesn't mean that we can solve all the problems. 74 00:04:26,192 --> 00:04:29,665 We can just design and build a far better environment 75 00:04:29,805 --> 00:04:32,495 to advance all human beings.