Carlandia.
All images are copyright Andrea Bigiarini
An organic system of car-based architecture
Some of the world’s most famous and important cities were built on water.
The great Roman emperors and Greek philosophers made their homes in Rome and Athens, separated from their work by rivers that flowed through the center of the city. Today, some of the world’s greatest cities are separated from their work by highways and freeways. But the world’s mayors want to change this.
Cities are often associated with the noise and pollution of traffic. But the truth is that cities are more than just places where cars go. They’re the places where people live, work, play and learn. They’re the places where our children grow up and our economy evolves.
In the past few years, there’s been a growing movement among our world’s mayors to change this. They’ve begun to build cities that are designed around humans, not cars. They’ve started to build new neighborhoods and office parks away from the noise and pollution of the highway. They’ve even begun to build new freeways that connect the city to its surrounding countryside, instead of cutting it off from it.
In the future, cities will be places where people and their cars co-exist. Instead of a one-way street in which cars go one direction and people go the other, cities will be designed so that people and their cars both go in the same direction. This will result in a street that is both safer and more pleasant to use. It will also reduce congestion and emissions, since people will be able to walk, bike, and take public transit where they need to go.
Welcome to Carlandia.
