City as a Grid

Introduction

This place is intended as a placeholder for resources linked to a City-as-a-grid model, where primal needs generation and distribution (food, energy, chores, computing, essential jobs...) as well as commonly needed dispenses (tools sharing, maintenance fees, ...) would be distributed in a geographical way.

Notions such as a part-time chore concept (citizen participation), peer to peer learning, alternative money or the implications of 3D replication/printing technologies or of immersive telepresence (enabling telework) will be studied keys.

A wider goal for this project is to minimize the global cost of the infrastructure without sacrificing it's scalability, and to consider this model applicable in a natural transition from immaterial goods towards a parallel, goods-based, geographical community.

Notions

• Cell: atomic entity representing the smallest, partially autonomous system, that might represent a common savoir-faire in a cooperative way
• Progressive bootstrapping : every new home should be bringing enough resources to counter-balance it's consumption at the cell scale. This can be seen as a community giving
• Interconnected Energy Network
• Distributed network infrastructure (decentralized routing)

Related resources

1. Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy envisions a composite (both manufacturial and culturally) society