Wednesday, October 04, 2006

What makes a city of tomorrow?

Film Victoria describes Melbourne as a futuristic city. With the development of Southern Cross Station, Port of Melbourne's face lift and famous Fed Square, it's not hard to see why.

Is Melbourne really a futuristic city compared to the rest of the world though? We thought to check out the competition and came up with some interesting results.

Introducing Victory City.

The website claims that our present day cities are obsolete and are threatening to engulf the entire countryside (I doubt anyone disagrees), and is set to permanently destroy vast areas of our best food-producing land.

Victory City™ promotes itself as the wave of the future. It's an entire city built all under one roof, and operated by private enterprise alone. They claim that there will not be just one, but many such cities throughout the entire world.

Boasting no crime (hmmm... how so?), no pollution, and no over-crowding, Victory City is a veritable utopia for those who've grown weary of trying to find solutions to today's urban problems.

Utopia or a bad dream? You decide http://www.victorycities.com

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