Chinas Vertical Mega City

中国的大型垂直城市

Now lets set our sights on that one large hotel. Imagine standing at the base of a building so massive， so self-contained， and so teeming with life that it truly qualified as a city. Right now， preparations are underway for constructing such a sci-fi marvel in the Chinese city of Shenzhen， a booming metropolis on the Pearl River Delta.

Known as Cloud Citizen， the finished building would comprise three interlocking towers， the tallest only a few hundred feet shorter than Dubais monstrous Burj Khalifa. At around 1.4 square kilometers， its surface area would be only slightly smaller than all of Monaco. But its whats inside that would really shake urban design up. Rather than just being a supermassive office block， Cloud Citizen is designed to operate as a self-contained city-within-a-city. Alongside homes and offices， the superstructure would contain farms， parkland， food production centers， and the means to harvest rainwater. It would also power itself using acombination of wind， solar， and algae， effectively allowing it to exist separately from Shenzhen proper. Impressively for such an urban building， the focus would be on green spaces and parkland， with commuters encouraged to walk to work through high-altitude skyparks.Although there are no concrete plans to start construction yet， Cloud Citizen is being taken seriously by the local government.

現在将我们的目光投向一座大酒店。想象一下自己站在一座如此庞大、完备、充满生命力的建筑物面前，你会觉得它有资格称为一座“城市”。目前，筹备工作正在中国深圳进行：在珠三角蓬勃发展的大都市构建一个科幻奇迹。

该设计取名为“云中漫步”，将由3座摩天塔楼相互联结构成，最高的一座仅比迪拜第一高楼哈利法塔矮几百英尺。其总的表面积大约有1.4平方千米，仅次于摩纳哥的国土面积。但是其内部的设计才真正震撼了整个城市设计界。“云中漫步”被设计成一个完备的城中城，而不只是作为一座巨大的办公楼。除了住宅和办公楼之外，这座大型建筑物还将拥有农场、绿地、食品生产中心及雨水收集设施。而且它还将利用风能、太阳能及藻类来提供所需能量，这些使其不依附于深圳，成为一个独立的存在体。令人印象深刻的是这座城市建筑物的设计亮点在于绿地及公园——旨在鼓励上班族穿过空中花园步行去上班。尽管目前还没有具体的开建计划，但当地政府很重视“云中漫步”项目。

Indias Gigantic Smart Cities

印度的巨大智能城市

It sounds like a Silicon Valley dream： a city where everything is connected to the Internet and a central command center digitally links every citizen. Yet this idle daydream may soon be a reality. Known as Dholera， its one of the Indian governments enormous new infrastructure projects that could be ready within a decade.

Part of the phenomenally ambitious Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor， a $90 billion scheme to link the two most important cities on the subcontinent， Dholera would be the jewel in the projects crown. Built from scratch on reclaimed land， it would be big， powerful， and stunningly high-tech. Digital crowd and traffic control would aim for no jams， no pollution， no mobs of people lining up at terminals， no dirt， and no littering. Every house would be wired up to the Internet， a stunning achievement in a country where， in 2013， only 3 percent of homes had any Internet access. Dholeras other draw is its size. Designed to cope with Indias ever-expanding population， the city would be twice as big as Mumbai， or roughly three times the size of Malta. Even more impressively， Dholera is just the tip of the iceberg. If the project comes off （and the government is pushing ahead， despite serious setbacks）， there are plans to build another 23 smart cities just as impressive across the region.

这听起来像一个硅谷梦：一座一切事物都网络化的城市和一个联系着每个市民的数字化中央指挥中心。然而这样的异想天开不久就会成为现实。印度政府预计在十年内完成大量新型基础设施的建设，而名为多莱拉的项目则是其中之一。

多莱拉项目作为令人瞠目的德里-孟买工业走廊的一部分，预期投资900亿美元，将连接印度次大陆的两个最重要的城市，其犹如皇冠上的明珠，光彩夺目。……