12/16/2023 0 Comments Space warfare xv rocketpunk manifesto![]() The details are far above my biology pay grade, but may well imply vast sublevels of, essentially, plumbing. Like a spacecraft life support system, on a suitably giga scale. Most of the city seems to be low-rise, or at least of roughly uniform height, but with monumental structures rising above the rest for added zip.Īnother consideration is that an ecumenopolis surely cannot be likeĪn ordinary habitable planet, where humans merely skim the cream off a self-sustaining natural ecosystem. The image of Trantor (nominally Coruscant) above - click to embiggen - hints at one way of finessing this. Likewise a modest urban density could still have an impressive skyline. Central Paris apparently has about the same population density as Manhattan, but a very different urban look. San Francisco, outside the Financial District, lacks the glass and steel canyons look, but cityscapes can vary considerably for a given density. Get roughly the population density of San Francisco. Planet, even this comes out to merely suburban average density.īut if we leave the oceans wet and only urbanize the land surface, we Spread over the whole surface of an earthlike ![]() His version of Trantor, called Splendid Wisdom, is home to a nice, round trillion people. We want a global city, not a world of ten-acre exurban ranchettes.ĭonald Kingsbury does much better in his unofficial Foundation sequel, Psychohistorical Crisis. His canonical figure for Trantor - 40 billion - is laughably low, only a few times current world population. The Good Doctor A slipped up badly on this score. Īs useful background for a transit ride, a few words - well, quite a few - about the overall cityscape, starting with its population. Never got any mention in the books, it reasonably ought to be. I bring up this trope because one of my interests, which has gotten oblique mention here before, is urban rapid transit.Īnd while TERTA - the Trantor Ecumenopolitan Rapid Transit Agency. To specifically reconstruct Asimov's Trantor, but a more broadly Just for the record, this discussion obviously lies waaayīeyond the Plausible Midfuture. Galactic Empire in Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. ![]() But accept no substitutes: really it means Trantor, capital world of the 'world city'.) For now - until the Star Wars prequels mercifully fadeįrom popular memory - most people will associate this trope withĬoruscant. (For which the geek (and Greek) term is ecumenopolis, One minor but durable trope in science fiction is the planetwide city. This might be a good time to talk about other planets. ![]() As Earth awaits the official debut of America's nightmare comedy, ![]()
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