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MEGA CITY ONE

 
 
Triplets
09:12 / 20.01.05
Or just Brit Cit?

What follows? Martial law? Law enforces who are judge, jury and executioner? AY BEE CEE Warriors?

BBC article brings up some decent questions.
 
 
FinderWolf
15:27 / 20.01.05
>> Liverpool could be extended on stilts into the sea

LOL! Wow. Yikes.

That "Stack" design is pretty bizarre as well.
 
 
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16:50 / 20.01.05
Why don't they just concrete over ALL OF THE FEILDS?!

Dickheads.

Besides, I don't wanna be connected to all those scouse twats. I need no shellsuits or gold chains.

"EY! EY! EY! Just geh tha fuhin bevvy on ey?!"

(Obviously, I'm a northerner and just digging the family on the west coast.)
 
 
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19:42 / 20.01.05
And just to add : the only ever scouser that I've met in real life was a totally sound, and funny guy.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
20:28 / 20.01.05
Fits the trend, really. Archjitects are always coming out with these brand new ideas for radical new conurbations/cities, and what it always comes down to is crushing the individual human spirit for the sake of large scale aesthetics.

Why is Manchester not Leeds, and why is Leeds not Liverpool? They're all cities, but there are fundamental cultural differences. Human cultural differences.The difference between the Beatles, Gang Of Four and Joy Division, if you like.

Before making these cities into One City, the architect by definition is trying to destroy or minimise the differences. As the differences come from humans, he will end up minimising humans.

It's a nasty, ugly, fascistic bollocks idea and they can fuck off.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
12:29 / 21.01.05
Would such a thing be sustainable? My knowledge of the area is piss-poor, how much countryside/suburbia would they be concreting over to make Mega-City One? Wouldn't this increase the strain on the area for dragging in clean water for the cityzens, and won't this increase the waste and polution the area puts out?

Anyway, the architect has the wrong idea, you don't build out more, you build up! Cities in the sky where people spend their entire life without seeing the ground. That's the future man!
 
 
Joetheneophyte
15:55 / 09.02.05
we are not bad us scousers, as a rule

I would say that crime here is no worse than any other major city and whilst it grates to see my Liverpool Bretheren often become Carla Lane stereotypes when a camera is pointed at them

I fall into the stereotypical scouse humourist on occassion which does annoy me for my own weakness

As for a major city. Sounds horrible to me ....not out of any isolationist tendencies (I actually quite like Mancunians as a rule and whilst I hate Man Utd, I respect them as a team) but I think that from an environmental point of view
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
16:07 / 09.02.05
Yes, they can indeed piss off. I've just moved to Leeds and I love the character of the place.
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
16:15 / 09.02.05
A building shaped like a fucking teddy bear? Did they just have a load of monkeys jamming out on CAD?
 
  
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