Autumn in Gotham is always particularly bleak. After the plants here, which have never been lush, lose the last bit of green, even dryness and decay are not enough. It is more like peeling off the steel skeleton.
The gentle coat allows this cold urban forest to return to its original appearance.
Using the steel forest to describe today's Gotham is really appropriate. During the time when Bruce was applying for a doctorate, Gotham's building renovation project has been ongoing. So far, the East District has been completely renovated.
The design idea of the renovation project has always been to use the limited land to carry the most people and to ensure their living needs to the greatest extent possible, at all costs.
Therefore, the entire East District now solves the housing problem of Gotham's more than 8 million people of all walks of life with less than one-fifth of the city's area, and the design idea of three-dimensional urban planning plays a major role in this.
Skyscrapers all over the world are basically used for commercial offices rather than residential buildings. Even the so-called high-rise residential buildings rarely exceed 40 floors, let alone super buildings that often reach 70 or 80 floors.
Obviously, this is not because developers don’t want to use smaller plots to accommodate more people, but that over-tall buildings are no longer suitable for human habitation. Warming, sound insulation, building stability, and even the carrying capacity of elevators are all factors.
There are problems that need to be solved. If you don’t have the time to solve them, it’s better to think of more ways to get a few pieces of land.
But this is not a very difficult problem for Wayne Group to solve. After establishing the core policy of the entire building renovation project, these technical problems have been overcome one by one.
First of all, the building in the East District is not an isolated high-rise building. Many high-rise buildings in an area are connected to each other.
If I had to make a metaphor, it would be a bit like the Colosseum, with pillars and stone slabs supporting each other, enclosing the outer area, and leaving a separate living space inside.
This allows high-rise buildings outside to support each other, reducing the requirements for material strength, and eliminating the need to build a separate community activity space. Even sports fields, gardens, schools and other livelihood facilities can be packed in.
Of course, the commonplace issue is lighting. Although this generation of Gothamites does not need sunlight, and was almost burned out by the intense sunlight that summer, the next generation of Gothamites must always live a normal life like other cities.
In life, one cannot escape from the sun.
Normal planners would either choose to sacrifice building height or continue to study materials in order to ensure normal lighting in an area with dense skyscrapers.
But Wayne Group is not taking the usual path. They don't plan to move their buildings, they plan to move the sun.
Of course, it's not really about moving the stars, but it's about using the dark clouds over Gotham to accumulate sunlight and releasing it accurately at the designated time.
For example, each building assembly has its own number. The number does not mean when the building area was built, but represents their geographical location, lighting direction and lighting time.
Once the time specified by the number is reached, the dark clouds will open a hole in that area and release the previously accumulated sunlight in the specified direction, ensuring that the sun can be seen here during the entire lighting period.
Of course, this is not a long-term solution, because since the dark cloud control device started working, the dark clouds have been gradually decreasing. According to surveys and records conducted by a professional testing and statistical team, the dark clouds may gradually dissipate in the next 50 years.
By then, lighting will become a big issue again, but the Wayne Group still does not want to move the building. They have now begun to study building solar panels.
The people of Gotham don't have any opinions on this, in fact, because although they live in the East Side, the East Side has basically been transformed into residences, and the occasional convenient commercial facilities do not provide enough jobs.
In other words, although they go back to live in the East District at night, they still have to work in other districts during the day.
Because almost the entire population was relocated to the East District, all slums in the other three districts were completely cleared, freeing up an unimaginable amount of land.
Slums are like a stubborn disease in the United States. The extremely dilapidated and chaotic slums that many people imagine, with no water or electricity, and where people are crowded in and waiting to die, do exist, but more of them are hidden slums.
For example, there is an apartment community that has long since lost its property maintenance, a neighborhood that has been locked in a lawsuit with the power company and still has no electricity, and a declining community that has not paid attention to keeping the streets clean and tidy, eventually causing housing prices to fall to the bottom.
These communities will attract homeless people, thereby making the security of the entire community more chaotic. Even if they look new and good on the outside, the living quality of everyone living here will plummet, and eventually they will be forced to
They had to join or escape.
There are many residents in such neighborhoods who have been in a state of endurance because they have no money to move to a better community and they still have certain conditions to prevent themselves from falling into the situation of homeless people.
After the East District was built, these people were basically attracted there, and the houses owned by these people would be reacquired and renovated.
The fact is that only a small number of people are reduced to the truly hellish slums and can afford to live in extremely high-end villa areas. The vast majority of ordinary Americans live in such communities.
Therefore, after concentrating the vast majority of the civilian class to live in the East District, the space freed up is staggering.
In addition to allowing investors to build more commercial space, Gotham's industrial recovery will provide more jobs.
Although in many comics, Gotham is extremely polluted, few introductions are made to what types of industries the city has.
In fact, such serious pollution comes from the chemical industry that made Gotham rich and based. It is not even the best on the entire East Coast, but it is famous in the United States and even the world. It is also the main artery of the super group Wayne Group.
In addition, Gotham also once had a very glorious history of shipbuilding industry, but unfortunately there is a certain distance from now. Now the shipbuilding industry has become the backbone of the metropolis.
However, in this type of manufacturing industry, latecomer advantages still exist. Although dozens of shipyards in Gotham's glory days have gone bankrupt in succession in the last century, they were reacquired and integrated with the powerful blood transfusion of Wayne Group.
The three Gotham shipyards are still gradually recovering.
While the chemical industry is still the industrial backbone of the entire city, the pollution problem is a problem that has to be faced.
Some people may be expecting Wayne Group to come up with some amazing technology that will make chemical pollution disappear instantly.
But in fact, pollution treatment is also an industry, and it can also provide a large number of jobs. Pollution detection, pollution treatment, and pollution discharge require manpower for every link, and many companies can be born. It is also an important link in maintaining the operation of the city.
Now Gotham's main way to deal with chemical pollution is to discharge it into the sea, but they have people in the sea.
Green Lantern Hal used the large amount of green light energy he obtained previously to arrange energy filters in the three directions where Gotham borders the sea to break down the remaining pollutants. Arthur sent the sea tribe to monitor at fixed points around Gotham to ensure filtration.
There is no problem with the seawater afterwards.
This system not only allows the discharged wastewater to basically not harm the marine environment, but also allows Bruce Wayne, who controls the system, to catch the mole who wants to discharge the waste as quickly as possible.
And once he has such a sensitive monitoring method, it will make it impossible for those insider companies that fish in troubled waters and fail to properly control pollution to hide, and this will force various pollution treatment industries in Gotham to carry out technical involution.
After all, if you don't have good enough technology and the sewage discharged does not meet the standards, you will be named by Wayne Group immediately. In order to maintain their position in the industry, they have to do something practical.
Among the four areas of Gotham, the West Side, which developed first and declined first, has a large number of similar decaying communities. After the East Side's residential system was established, many residents who remained in the West Side chose to sell their houses and move to the East Side to live in new houses.
In fact, the West District originally had a large area that was an old industrial base. Taking into account the newly vacated space, more than 70% of the West District area can be used to build new industrial parks.
As a result, countless factories of the chemical industry and its peripheral industries have gathered here. In addition, super groups such as Wayne Group have also established high-tech parks here, focusing on high-tech industries such as medical care, nuclear power, electronic chips, semiconductors, and new energy.
The equivalent of the West District is the North District, which was once dominated by gangs and was the headquarters of the Twelve Families. Most of the industries were built and developed around the gangs. It was once a gold-selling cave for black and gray industries.
However, on the eve of the music festival, Godfather Falcone was assassinated and his whereabouts are still unknown. The Twelve Families are almost falling apart. Most of the families that can successfully go ashore have also transformed into modern corporate systems and no longer flaunt themselves as gangster families. They are
The main force in building the North District.
Because there are many entertainment areas in the North District for gang bosses to consume and entertain, and for black and gray industry personnel to sell stolen goods, the entertainment industry here is still the main industry, and the model is modeled after the Imperial City, with the gaming industry and gaming tourism as the pillar industries.
It also includes the sale of alcohol, cigarettes and contraband, as well as some amusement parks, dance halls, theaters and other livelihood facilities.
And because the North District borders the land, there is a large area of suburban land to be developed, so relatively high-end entertainment venues such as golf courses, racecourses, and large comprehensive sports venues are also being constructed one after another.
The part of the West End that borders the land is used for agriculture. However, Gotham is the kind of city whose land and climate conditions are not very suitable for the development of agriculture, even if human pollution is put aside. Therefore, the area of farmland is relatively small, and even more so.
Most of them are comprehensive farms with tourist reception properties.
The inner area of Gotham City is higher in the west and lower in the east, and the terrain becomes more uneven as you go south. The suburbs in the western area are basically hilly, the groundwater conditions are not good enough, and the water resources are not as abundant as in the east. So even if there is sunshine and no pollution, there is still
With Pamela, a plant expert, protecting her, the agricultural products produced can only be said to be mediocre, and are not as good as the farmland project that the metropolis launched just a few years ago.
However, Gotham's indoor planting project is quite successful. With the investment of Wayne Group, it cooperated with the Department of Biology and Chemistry of Gotham University to invest in the construction of a special plant cultivation industrial park in the West District, focusing on rare and anti-climatic plants.
The cultivation of high-end ornamental plants has turned a profit less than a year after its establishment.