[C19fan]

I find Tatlin's Tower fascinating. There were some interesting avant garde stuff in the early Soviet Union before Socialist Realism was imposed. Is the tower even feasible?

[Artemis Webb]

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[treetopsandroofs]

The Walking City favors London, with 1960s designs from Ron Herron offering artificially intelligent mobile robotic structures that could freely roam the scorched earth, moving to resources or interconnecting with other pods for “walking metropolises.” They could then disperse as needed. Yeah, this concept was much more than 50 years ahead of its time

His walkers were at best 20 years ahead of George Lucas’.

Was half-expecting to see Babel listed.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

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[Fiji Hill]

The Mt. Baldy Inn in Pico Rivera, Calif. The dining room looked like the interior of a cave. Back in 1960-1961, we went there frequently for their excellent Mexican food.

[ThomasThomas]

I had plans for a fort but it was too close to dinner time and my mom made me put the chairs back.

[Yo-Yo]

And maybe one that shouldn't have been built.

[DUMBGRUNT]

The Illinois could have housed 100,000 people moving up the mile-high tower via atomic-powered elevators

Moving up and down is about they would be doing.
After subtracting the floor space used by the elevators, emergency stairs, HVAC shafts, plumbing shafts...

Not much usable floor area for working.
Making the rent impossibly high.

And what would the transit time be for the elevators at 60 MPH - 88 Feet/Sec? How many express and local elevators? Car capacity? Tandem, triple?

100,000 people going in and out every day?

Fake building.

[upchuck]

These stories of jamming several thousand people into one building and them having such a fine quality of life that they never want to leave their building remind me of the rather strange book The World Inside by Robert Silverberg.

Preview:

Welcome to Urban Monad 116. Reaching nearly two miles into the sky, the one thousand stories of this building are home to over eight hundred thousand people living in peace and harmony. In the year 2381 with a world population of over seventy-five billion souls, the massive Urbmon system is humanity's salvation.

Life in Urbmon 116 is highly regulated, life is cherished, and the culture of procreation is seen as the highest pinnacle of god's plan. Conflict is abhorred, and any who disturb the peace face harsh punishment―even being sent "down the chute" to be recycled as fertilizer.