Tokyo Megaprojects Under Construction

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la1OTcBlD90 

Torch Tower: The Insane Engineering of Tokyo's First Supertall Skyscraper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51VYxQ8wpfc 

Why Tokyo Is Insanely Well Designed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zysL_lkdtys

Rainbow Bridge (Tokyo)

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Bridge_(Tokyo) Unfortunatly, such double deck bridges just aren't allowed in Vancouver and BC in general.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DEjugfrP3wS/?img_index=2 

https://www.kanpai-japan.com/tokyo/rainbow-bridge 

https://www.alamy.com/rainbow-bridge-to-rainbow-town-daiba-tokyo-japan-image921088.html Tokyo has no problems with curves and loops. Unfortunatly, the Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV) and the BC Mind Virus keeps the city and metropolitan region as a warped mess just going round in circles.

https://www.gov-online.go.jp/eng/publicity/book/hlj/html/202403/202403_02_en.html 

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/general-news/20230828-132566/ 

https://www.tokyobybike.com/2014/08/tokyos-rainbow-bridge-by-bicycle.html 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Pattullo+Bridge+replacement Will open with only 4 lanes, not 6 or 8 and no provision for a lower deck. Another fine example of BC bottleneck planning. There just isn't any interest in correcting most of the chokepoints in Greater Vancouver. A key giveaway is the lack of funding for a regional network of bus-bridges. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Arm_Bridge This should have had 2 tracks for the airport and another 2 tracks for an eventual Vancouver-Richmond & Delta extension to the ferry terminal. 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/North_Arm_Bridge_%284378906640%29.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/North_Arm_Bridge_shot_from_SkyTrain_3622.JPG

Fahrenheit 451 (1953 Novel) and height limits

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451 Two decades before Ray_Bradbury would start writing what would eventually lead to his F 451 novel, LA was sort of close to imposing a 451 foot height limit. However, the LA City Hall would end up being slightly taller than 451 feet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_City_Hall "Dedication ceremonies were held on April 26, 1928. It has 32 floors and, at 454 feet (138 m) high..."  

"A City Council ordinance passed in 1905 did not permit any new construction to be taller than 13 stories or 150 ft (46 m) in order to keep the city's architecture harmonious. City Hall's 454 ft (138 m) height was deemed exempt as a public building and assured that no building would surpass one third its height for over three decades until the ordinance was repealed by voter referendum in 1957." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_City_Hall#History  

https://laist.com/news/entertainment/city-hall-tall 454' not 451 feet, but close nonetheless. LA didn't have to wait until 1953, because it was pondering a 450'-455 foot height restriction in the mid to late 1920s. Of course NYC and Chicago already had tall buildings in the 1920s, so perhaps LA wanted to symbolize an F-U to them by keeping buildings under 500 feet until the mid to late 1960s. 

"The writing and theme within Fahrenheit 451 was explored by Bradbury in some of his previous short stories. Between 1947 and 1948, Bradbury wrote "Bright Phoenix", a short story about a librarian who confronts a "Chief Censor", who burns books. An encounter Bradbury had in 1949 with the police inspired him to write the short story "The Pedestrian" in 1951. In "The Pedestrian", a man going for a nighttime walk in his neighborhood is harassed and detained by the police. In the society of "The Pedestrian", citizens are expected to watch television as a leisurely activity, a detail that would be included in Fahrenheit 451. Elements of both "Bright Phoenix" and "The Pedestrian" would be combined into The Fireman, a novella published in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1951. Bradbury was urged by Stanley Kauffmann, an editor at Ballantine Books, to make The Fireman into a full novel. Bradbury finished the manuscript for Fahrenheit 451 in 1953, and the novel was published later that year." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451#Writing_and_development 

F 451 was published in 1953, on 10-19.   

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13079982-fahrenheit-451 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451#Historical_and_biographical_context 

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/451/summary  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451#Writing_and_development  

Did Metropolis_(1927_film) help to restrict the height of tall buildings in LA for several decades? 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)#Influences  

Whether the LA City Hall is 454', 453' or 452 feet, it's not exactly 451 feet, but still close enough. 

https://www.latimes.com/visuals/photography/la-me-fw-archives-20190403-htmlstory.html "The 32-story, 454-foot-tall Los Angeles City Hall opened with a three-day public celebration April 26-28, 1928. Construction started in 1926."

https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/city-hall/4376 138.4 m / 454 ft 

https://buildingsdb.com/CA/los-angeles/los-angeles-city-hall "The Los Angeles City Hall reaches an architectural height of 453ft (138m). It has a total of 32 floors, 28 above ground and 4 basements..."  

https://www.travelinusa.us/visit-los-angeles-city-hall "At the time of construction, a regulation was in effect in the city that prohibited buildings taller than 150 feet. Los Angeles City Hall was therefore an exception and, at an impressive 32 stories and a height of 452 feet, it remained the tallest building in Los Angeles until 1964 when Union Bank Plaza opened." 

https://waterandpower.org/Museum2/Los_Angeles_City_Hall_1928.html 

https://www.c40.org/cities/los-angeles 

By the 1970s, LA, SF, Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo, Toronto, Montreal and Paris, all had some buildings over 600 feet or even over 200 m. 

https://www.c40.org/cities/vancouver 

Unfortunately by the 1970s, stubborn and backwards Vancouver wanted to go in the opposite direction of most cities. Thus, a kind of censoring agenda was implemented. SF and Sydney and even Seattle, proved that a scenic city by the water can have taller buildings, wider bridges and longer trains than what little Vancouver would allow.

While there isn't any direct correlation with the F 451 story and Vancouver, BC imposing a height limit, there is something peculiar. Some people might consider that if a building is around 500 feet in height, or at least 150 m, that's in the category of starting to be a tall building. 

Well, Vancouver, always looking for ways to symbolically project a watered down or scaled back city, height restrictions were at the top of the list. 

Somewhere in-between the 1950s & 60s, Vancouver started to refine its height restriction mandate. Thus, as several cities in the 1970s started to allow for taller buildings, Vancouver has never allowed any office tower to have 40 floors. Perhaps an imposed 451 foot height limit would have been too obvious, so Vancouver generally had an imposed height restriction of 450 feet, with some occasional variations. 

Right through the 1960s only one building in Vancouver, or anywhere in BC had a 30th floor.

The first residential building to have at least 40 floors. https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=921 1973 https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=110144876&page=3 

The first residential building to have more than 45 floors. https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=3 2001 https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=110144876&page=6

It wouldn't be until the early 21st century before Vancouver would permit 2 buildings to rise above 600 feet. https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=110144876&page=8 , https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=110144876&page=9 

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=1 Vancouver has no building that makes it onto the first page. Burnaby just barely makes it. 

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=110144876&page=10 However, Vancouver has another chance to actually have some taller buildings. https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=1&status=15 Over the decades, various plans have been stopped, due to all the red tape B$ and extreme restrictions. 

Vancouver has had quite a history of limiting, restricting, thwarting & censoring proper big city stuff. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=LA+City+Hall

The Monorail vs. the Subway

 Why Monorails Are A Bad Idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f__nhlHC1g A monorail is OK to go from one end of a line to the other. However, having several branches and junctions can be quite problematic.

 How Los Angeles Rejected the Monorail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piF7adQyXCk 

 How Seattle Rejected the Monorail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVQ-2lcBOjI A long double track monorail line might have worked for Seattle. However, conventional rail is still much more practical.

Why Tokyo's Metro Is Profitable and New York City’s Isn’t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdJwAUdvlik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4YFFtTEUQc The Broadway subway in Vancouver, BC.

Sunshine 60: Tokyo's haunted skyscraper

https://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/sunshine-60-tokyo-skyscraper

 The Sunshine 60 Tower has an interesting history.

https://medium.com/@movingjapan5/haunted-places-you-definitely-shouldnt-visit-in-tokyo-d7c01e7eb1bd

https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/top-10-most-haunted-places

https://www.travelandleisure.com/holiday-travel/most-haunted-places-in-the-world

https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/most-haunted-places-in-the-world

https://www.celebritycruises.com/blog/haunted-places-to-visit

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Tokyo

The Tokyo Blade Runner Question

 https://thegaijinghost.com/blog/omoide-yokocho-tokyo-blade-runner-question

Japanese Aesthetics in Blade Runner Movie - NOT in the Original Philip K. Dick Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUeo2X72kJc

https://japanposter.co.uk/products/blade-runner-original-release-japanese-movie-poster-1982-b3-size

https://filmschoolrejects.com/blade-runner-anxieties-today

https://slate.com/culture/2017/09/blade-runner-s-influence-on-neo-yokio-and-other-anime.html

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2017-10-06/blade-runner-unbelievable-influence-on-anime/.122391

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/02/blade-runner-the-final-cut-review

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/05/tv/blade-runner-black-lotus

https://cdsvinyljapan.com/products/4548967465433

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Tokyo

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Nippon+Steel-US+Steel+deal

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Nippon+Steel+to+acquire+U.S.+Steel

Sunshine-60: Tokyo's haunted skyscraper

 https://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/sunshine-60-tokyo-skyscraper

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Tokyo

Sunshine 60 tower in Tokyo

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_60

It's about the same height as the B of A tower in SF, but with a few more floors than 555 California.

https://sunshinecity.jp/en/observatory

https://www.stripes.com/living/pacific_travel/quick_trips/2021-11-11/sushine-city-ikebukuro-tokyo-gashapon-sugamo-prison-3545506.

https://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/sunshine-60-tokyo-skyscraper

https://medium.com/@movingjapan5/haunted-places-you-definitely-shouldnt-visit-in-tokyo-d7c01e7eb1bd

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Tokyo

Tokyo Has Built The World's Best Subway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFpG3yf3Rxk

World’s Busiest Station: Shinjuku Station Tokyo  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOmskE5uTm4

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Tokyo

Tokyo Skytree...

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Skytree

Japan's new tallest skyscrapers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYpjfg5eKJQ

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Sky+Tower

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Tokyo

Sky Tower (Auckland)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Tower_(Auckland)

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sj%C3%B6staden+Skybar/@59.301256,18.0833915,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipNKXs3B92slMOVnPuiDQ1KD3Ko5BOhnyZz5saTU!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNKXs3B92slMOVnPuiDQ1KD3Ko5BOhnyZz5saTU%3Dw203-h270-k-no!7i3024!8i4032!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x465f9f0ca4e2c48b:0xd5693f3a5854cf46!2sBarkarby,+Sweden!3b1!8m2!3d59.4001312!4d17.8625102!3m4!1s0x465f798d5edd1bbd:0x7ae7c477338b694a!8m2!3d59.301256!4d18.0833915

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/2022/04/tokyo-skytree.html

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Sky+Tower

Why Tokyo Is Insanely Well Designed

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zysL_lkdtys

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Tokyo

World’s Busiest Station: Shinjuku Station Tokyo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOmskE5uTm4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06amPHxVGdM

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Tokyo

Greater_Tokyo_Area

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Tokyo_Area

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Tokyo_from_the_top_of_the_SkyTree_%28cropped%29.JPG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo#Cityscape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_structures_in_Tokyo#Tallest_buildings ,
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=962&status=15

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Tokyo

Tokyo

http://skyscrapercenter.com/city/tokyo

https://darylvsworld.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/skytrain-technology-declared-for-60km-outer-belt-metro-in-tokyo/

http://skyscrapercenter.com/cities

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Tokyo

the Millennium Tower

http://millenniumtowersf.com/

http://la.curbed.com/tags/millennium-hollywood,
http://www.scpr.org/news/2013/08/28/38931/hollywood-groups-sue-to-stop-huge-development/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Tower_(Dubai)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Tower_(Tokyo)

Domes and Stadiums

Air-supported Domes

BC_Place Stadium

http://www.bcplace2011.com/#home

-
The Tokyo Dome opened on March 17, 1988. It was intended to be part of a larger entertainment area like the 1965 Astrodome complex.
-
The Hubert_H._Humphrey_Metrodome opened on April 3, 1982.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings_Stadium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Field
-
The Pontiac_Silverdome opened on August 23, 1975 & was closed in February, 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Silverdome#Usage_after_Lions.27_move_to_Ford_Field -
The Georgia_Dome opened in 1992. http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=1998
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2012 Olympic_Stadium_(London)
Wembley_Stadium
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=6808
The London Millennium_Dome is situated on the Greenwich_Peninsula & was completed in 1999.
-
A fine example of the Multi-purpose_stadium configuration & Capacity concept can be found at the Louisiana_Superdome. http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=6437

http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_menu/stadium_list/100000.shtml

http://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/2010/04/south-philadelphia-sports-complex.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliant_Park

Tokyo Sky Tree

Tokyo_Sky_Tree

Tokyo_Tower

Tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_Tokyo

Godzilla

http://paralleluniverse.msn.com/

http://movies.msn.com/movie-guide-summer/

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Tokyo

Sunshine 60, Tokyo opened in April 1978

Sunshine_60

{Perhaps the only haunted skyscraper in the world, the Sunshine 60 building was built on the site of a former prison.
This prison had been the site of numerous executions, including those of seven top WWII war criminals, one of whom was Hideki Tojo, the prime minister of Japan during WWII.
Since its construction there have been reports of supernatural sightings in and around the building.
Tallest building in Tokyo and Japan from April 1978 to February 1991, beating out the Shinjuku Mitsui Building and eventually losing out to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.
The 1992 manga "X" by CLAMP had this building play a prominent role, housing both a secret basement lab and also being a "kekkai" or sort of protective charm. This manga was made into an animated film in 1996.
In real life this building is still much less mundane than its no-nonsense appearance would suggest. Part of a multibuilding complex that includes a shopping mall and hotel, this building has an observatory on the top floors, and also a planetarium and an aquarium on the 10th floor.}

http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=1777

http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=1293

http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=85

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_Tokyo

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http://www.sunshinecity.co.jp/sunshine/campaign/index.html

http://www.princehotels.co.jp/sunshine/index.html

http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3038.html

http://www.sunshinecity.co.jp/

http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=building&id=sunshine60building-tokyo-japan&lng=3

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Tokyo

Urban Tech Links .:. UTL

UTL - Personal observations of the urban world from a backwards Vancouver and backwater BC perspective. Indeed, it's always amazing to see what so many other cities can do, simply because they don't have anything like a Vancouver, Victoria & BC mentality to hold them back.

The Greater_Tokyo_Area is the most populated urban region on the planet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_area#Largest_urban_areas ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_area

https://wikimedia.org/Sand_Island_and_Honolulu.jpg Honolulu hasn't permitted any buildings to be as tall as what is in Miami, LA or SF. Indeed, Honolulu, has avoided having a Singapore or especially a HK size skyline. So far, no building has been allowed to be as tall as the Custom_House_Tower in Boston or the Smith_Tower in Seattle. Indeed, no buildings are even allowed to be as tall as the Los_Angeles_City_Hall at 453 feet or 138m.

https://wikimedia.org/Perth_airport.JPG No building in Vancouver is allowed to be as tall as the 2 tallest in Perth & Calgary.

Honolulu and 

Perth, WA are in such nice climate zones. They are a couple of the most isolated major cities on the planet. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu#Transportation , 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth#Transport

In some ways, Australia has been able to surpass Canada, despite it having a smaller land area & less population than Canada. Unlike Montreal & especially Vancouver, Perth & especially Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane, have allowed several taller buildings than what is allowed in Montreal & Vancouver. 

However, Honolulu's_tallest_buildings still haven't been permitted to even be as tall as the 2 tallest in the Giza_pyramid_complex in Cairo, Egypt. 

Urban Tech Links is a basic blog about referencing tall buildings & urban technology in various cities in general. Thus, it's mostly just a list of various urban and tech links. It's also about comparing various cities & infrastructure.

Some cities like to have narrow bridges, short trains & small buildings, like Vancouver, while many others cities reach for the sky. 

There is a point when a lot of major cities start to permit buildings to be taller than the 2 tallest pyramids in Egypt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramids 

Paris & London, NYC & Chicago, Tokyo & Seoul...  

www.infrastructurebc.com

The BC part of Canada has tried to keep its infrastructure as small as possible for as long as possible.

It wasn't until the 1970s when strict & stubborn Vancouver started to allow for some buildings to be almost as tall as the 2 tallest Egyptian pyramids. https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=105524651&offset=50 

1973 Royal_Centre_(Vancouver) not quite as tall as .:.

1977 Harbour_Centre not counting the flagpole, its still shorter than the original height of the tallest Egyptian pyramid.

2001 One_Wall_Centre, not including its spire, was the first building in Vancouver & BC to be taller than the tallest pyramid in Egypt. 

For most of Vancouver's history, the city refused to permit any building to be taller than the pyramid on top of the 496' Custom_House_Tower in Boston, the 462' Smith_Tower in Seattle, the 453' Los_Angeles_City_Hall. Of course today they are all just like stumps. 481' and 471' are the original heights of the 2 tallest in the Giza_pyramid_complex.

https://wikimedia.org/Pyramids_of_the_Giza_Necropolis.jpg

https://wikimedia.org/Kheops-Pyramid.jpg

"Initially standing at 146.6 metres (481 feet), the Great Pyramid was the world's tallest human-made structure for more than 3,800 years. Over time, most of the smooth white limestone casing was removed, which lowered the pyramid's height to the current 138.5 metres (454.4 ft)" 

Height	Original: 146.6 m (481 ft) or 280 cubits Current: 138.5 m (454 ft)

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza 

Height	Currently: 136.4 metres (448 ft) Original: 143.5 m (471 ft; 274 cu)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Khafre

"The 1997 study noted that the opportunities for buildings significantly exceeding existing permitted heights were limited. There were a total of five sites where buildings exceeding the 450 foot height limit are possible and two sites in the northwest corner of the Central Business District where heights up to 400 feet (exceeding the 300 foot limit) could be considered." https://council.vancouver.ca/20030515/pe2.htm

Indeed, it's tough to believe that for the longest time, any building in the BC part of Canada had to be considerably shorter than the Washington_Monument in DC or the Philadelphia_City_Hall.

Then Vancouver wouldn't permit any building to be as tall as the Cairo_Tower. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Tower "At 187 m (614 ft), it was the tallest structure in Egypt for 37 years until 1998..."

2016 was when a Hotel-Condo was allowed to be slightly taller than the Cairo-Tower. 

The Cairo_Flagpole is the world's tallest flagpole, at 201.952 m (662 ft 7 in) tall. No building in Vancouver is allowed to be as tall.

The Living_Shangri-La tower is close, but not quite.

Of course Vancouver, BC & even Canada can't stop Egypt from building big & tall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_Egypt#Tallest_structures

{The origin of Al-Qahirah is said to come from the appearance of the planet Mars during the foundation of the City of Cairo. The planet Mars, which in Greek was called Ares, was associated with ruin or destruction and was called Al Najm Al Qahir in Arabic. Al Najm Al Qahir is transliterated as "the destroyer star [planet]".} http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo#Etymology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo#Modern_era

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-cairo-washington-dc Washinton, DC made sure that going into the 20th century, it was going to have mostly low rise buildings like Paris & London or Berlin. However, the Greater Paris Region would eventually allow some tall buildings in certain areas. London even moreso. Yet, Greater London & Metropolitan Paris, certainly have allowed some tall buildings. 

Vancouver has been under a multigenerational set of restrictions as well as a small thinking & planning agenda. Part of this might be attributed to a backwater BC mentality. However, some parts of Greater Vancouver are allowed to build on a grander scale.

Edmonton, Seattle, Portland & eventually Calgary will all have underground train stations longer than what's in Vancouver. Yet, Vancouver could have really benefited from having proper big city long stations. Most of the regions bridges are so narrow that its difficult to have a proper bus lane & HOV lane system. But Vancouver & BC are all about inefficiency. Things might eventually improve if enough people someday start to see the growing gap between what most cities allow vs. stubborn Vancouver.

https://metropolisfilm.fandom.com/wiki/Joh_Frederson

Alphaville is one of the best cautionary stories about the AI run, totalitarian smart-city scenario. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaville_(film)#Legacy

THX_1138 is the quintessential movie about AI & machines running an underground totalitarian city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THX_1138#Plot

Logan's_Run is another interesting totalitarian smart-city movie. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan's_Run_(film)#Plot

Blade_Runner is one of the best urban Sci-Fi movies ever made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner#Plot

Jacque_Fresco is one of many people throughout history with their own perspectives on civilization. https://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html?sh=4107813c607f Some interesting ideas, but perhaps with a utopian angle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity#Gameplay , 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWLClUwAHGc , 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity_(1989_video_game)  

http://www.city-data.com/forum/religion-spirituality/845605-humans-originate-mars.html,
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/marte/esp_marte_14.htm,
http://mars-earth.com/earthpage.htm

http://fusionanomaly.net/orion.html, http://fusionanomaly.net/bladerunner.html,
http://vigilantcitizen.com/hidden-knowledge/connection-between-sirius-and-human-history

More about, UDL: https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=urban

https://www.polygon.com/gaming/2012/9/11/3318910/nasa-scientist-believes-we-could-all-be-in-a-video-game

Civilization_(computer_game)

Civilization_IV  

http://www.mindmined.com/public_library/nonfiction/jake_horsley_gnosticism_reborn.html ,
http://hplusmagazine.com/2009/10/19/ghost-shell-why-our-brains-will-never-live-matrix , 

https://kotaku.com/one-nasa-scientists-quest-to-prove-were-all-trapped-ins-5942400 , 

http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/digitalphysics.html  

The Universe seems to be a vast Multi-channel of space & time that originated from a central point of energy. But what or who started this Big_Bang of cosmic information? Its like a cosmic projection program running inside an immense planetarium. The energy of nature or part of a creators plan. Thus either nature or a conscious creator has set up a cosmic matrix of space & time. Humans are just beginning to try to understand how an intelligent force of creation set this all up. Computer models factor into the study of reality & VR helps to illustrate different phases & parts of the universe.

http://sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/34497/title/Building_The_Matrix,
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/11/universe-computer-simulation,
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-10/how-do-we-know-were-not-living-inside-massive-computer-simulation,
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628950.300-the-idea-we-live-in-a-simulation-isnt-science-fiction.html   

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Nick_Bostrom,

http://www.simulation-argument.com, http://www.simulation-argument.com/matrix2.html, 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality#Intermingled , Simcity, the Sims & more...
http://io9.com/5950543/physicists-say-there-may-be-a-way-to-prove-that-we-live-in-a-computer-simulation

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2216189/Do-live-Matrix-researchers-say-way-prove-do.html ,
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/143180-probing-the-matrix-is-our-universe-simulated-and-if-so-by-who

http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/2012/03/cosmic-computer-hypothesis.html
Computer modeling provides the best way to extrapolate copious amounts of data.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Comparison_of_pyramids_SMIL.svg

The Hundredth_monkey_effect isn't supposed to be true, but in backwards Vancouver & backwater BC, it does seem to be happening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect#History

Almost everything in Vancouver is like a watered down knockoff. So many people from different backgrounds keep wanting to hold Vancouver back. The NO FUN CITY mentality keeps emerging, but that's just part of the phenomenon.

This reference blog is of a non profit nature.  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=UTL 

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