#futureconcpets

I am intrigued by Paul Laszlo’s concept of Atomville. In 1954, Popular Mechanics published an article by Laszlo outlining what his concepts were for American future living in 2004, a place he called Atomville. In this place, most travel is done by flying, with cars only used for short trips around the town. To accomodate this, all the houses are built underground with landing strips for helicopters and ‘convertiplanes’ on top of them.

‘Because of increased population, land would be at a premium, so Laszlo envisioned "three-level use of a lot:  living below the surface, landing on it and traveling above it."’

http://mid2mod.blogspot.com/2011/02/paul-laszlos-atomville.html

Also included in the article is an idea for an underground bomb shelter, which shows a further possible method of underground living.

This whole idea gives a very interesting perspective on what a future world may be like, and consequently how humans would have to live and interact with the environment differently to accommodate it.