Week Four: Clarifying Thoughts and Evolving our Future CBD Scenario

This week the tutorial was focused on what the people and their lifestyles would be like within our imagined scenario. To clarify our thoughts, we summarised our ideas thus far:

• Multiple smaller self-contained centres dispersed thoughout Brisbane, as opposed to single centre.

From this we were able to go further and synthesise new ideas from throughout the past week to evolve our urban scenario further:

URBAN SCENARIO: A self-contained CBD

• Self-contained in it's transport network, food production (not entirely self-reliant).
• New multimodal transport network existing within CBD i.e. integrated network of walking, cycling, travellator, train, tram etc.
• 24 hour city - people work less hours and company needs more people completing one job (flexible work hours) = CBD is productive 24 hours a day.
• Urban Farms (on buildings) for food production - to reduce need for transportation of food from rural areas to CBD.
• Ration system in place in times when fresh food is scarce (socially sustainable, prevents over-consumption). 
• Large retail and commercial spaces become a production/manufacturing zones for food and online purchasing (located in CBD to eliminate costs in transport / also convenient).
• Many people work from home with online meetings and communications.
• School children still go to school (need to develop social skills) in urban setting.
• Communal gathering areas for recreation scattered throughout CBD.