- The trend of independence from the city is already relevant now. And I'm sure it will gain momentum and on. Until now, people sought to cities, because they gave the best job, they were better trained, treated, entertained and defended. But now the high walls and the army garrison are useless from the external enemy. Terrorism and organized crime are looking for their victims in megalopolis, "Danilla argues. - great power and large cities are no longer connected. The headquarters and the centers of the authorities have already taken out of the capitals of 35 countries. At the same time, these states have not become less manageable. Consumer trading also leaves megalopolises. After all, the closer to the center - the higher the price. And why go shopping when everything can be bought via the Internet. Only in the United States, online trading volumes in the next five years promise to grow twice. Even less of the city is now needed for the production of goods. Over the past 100 years, the number of citizens who create something has decreased four times. In the West countries, about 10% of people work, without leaving their homes at all. All they need is a computer and communication. So why do we live in a metropolis, in which we spend two hours a day in traffic jams and only once a year we go to the theater?
However, Danil Medvedev does not argue that the cities will disappear at all: "Just because people like to communicate and meet each other. And the main function of the metropolis is the accumulation of ideas, creativity, full-time education and communication - still nothing will replace. Large forums and events are impossible to spend in the village. "
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So what will they be - megalopolises of the future? On this subject, Danil is practically fantastic forecasts: "The largest cities of the planet will be more connected with each other than with their own countries. Global megalopolises (the so-called club elite cities) will be the centers of innovation, entertainment, tourism and simply human communication. " These "capital of the world" will offer not goods and not even services, but a lifestyle. They will share duties: having worked in the financial capital, a person will be able to be in medical, but for the weekend to go to theatrical. Own apartments in such cities will be a remnant of the past. Dynamic and mobile professionals will often easily move from place to place. The difference is another area or another continent - it will disappear for them.
Those who do not suit the incredible pace of the lives of new ultrasounds will be able to move into small settlements. They will have a familiar lifestyle, but will completely change technical support. The houses will be equipped with sun and wind generators, and cars - ride on biofuel made from garbage. In homes will reign smart techniques. The development of virtual reality will allow most people to work remotely.
The industry around which our megalopolises sometime occurred, will no longer play in the life of cities no role. Somewhere on Earth there will be plants and factories, but since only robots will work there, then few people will even know where they are located. Robots fill the streets of cities. "Today in European cities there are robots-garbers who go through the streets and collect waste. Yes, and all these terminals with the press, tickets are also robots that replace grandmothers from kiosks and newspaper stalls. And someday surrogates will appear - the woman sits at home at the computer, and the robot replacing her robot instead of shopping, chooses clothes, and then sends purchases by mail. " Danila said that the new technology was now launched in Korea, which would be relevant in Moscow. On the walls of the subway, photos depicted with the image of goods, price and barcode. People, while traveling, order what they wish, and at the arrival home they are already waiting for a courier with purchases.
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The traffic jams will disappear: "First, flying cars are already on the approach. Experienced samples exist, and, I think, about ten years later we will see the first brought. But it is necessary to understand that all new pierces the way with great difficulty. In Moscow, there are currently active bureaucratic procedures in order to resolve helicopter transportation. It will be the first step towards flying vehicles. In addition, high-speed automatic types of public transport will appear. And the liberated roads will reveal people on rollers, bicycles and two-wheeled segwey electric vehicles. " Danil himself for about three years already moved around the city on this and winter, and in the summer and quite satisfied with the result: "Two-wheeled electric car is an ideal solution for megalopolises. This is such an individual and intermediate between the pedestrian and the car's type of transport. It is compact, mobile and does not clog the environment. "
Also, according to the forecasts of Danils, the streets will be built up with transformer houses: "Turning the building from the university to the office, and from the theater - in the housing will allow to satisfy the fast-growing and frequently changing needs of residents."
Modern technologies will allow to create the necessary microclimate in the cities: "There are a number of projects in the world, allowing you to build a huge dome, for example, on VDHH or" Luzhniki ". And this technology is quite cheap. The cost is comparable to the cost of improvement of the territory and export of snow from the streets. " Buing such a dome over cities, you can control the climate.
Lighting the streets can be using modified trees. "Fluorescent proteins are simply introduced into the cells (this technology is already actively used in genetic engineering). And the tree will glow at night. "
You can overcome crime with the help of equipping all the city streets with video cameras. Moreover, access to the image must be allowed to all residents. Then it turns out that the crime will be committed in front of the whole city: "Public control is a very productive thing," said Danil Medvedev.
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Scientific leaders of transport and road facilities Mikhail Blinkin: "Future cities can live without traffic jams in different schemes. For example, low-roll development and highly mobileized families in which every adult rides the car. Either high-density building, where many pedestrian zones and perfect public transport. Vital and that. Not life is a mixture. "
Specialist in public communications Denis Vizgalov: "Bind cities - ancient passion for mankind. In 1988, the German philosopher Weber wrote a book in which it prophested that as soon as the Internet penetrates every corner of the Earth, then the cities will not need. However, the cities still live and even manage to grow. Live communication will not replace anything. Here is a fact: the global bank estimated that, despite the development of communication tools - Skype, the Internet, fax, - the business trips did not become less. "
Architect Boris Bernasconi: "What is a house in the past - this is a heavy structure. You look at him, and immediately clear is the theater or residential building. Today, more and more give preference to the houses transformers. There's a stable, and office, and apartments, and a hotel. That is the hybrid building. It is not necessary to demolish completely to redo. "