In the previous article, we got familiar with some basic concepts of the Woven City, such as its establishment purpose, its location, and its residents. In this essay, we will delve into some other aspects of this futuristic city. So, please stay with us until the end of this article.
An Architect’s Dream
The Danish architect named Bjarke Ingels, who is from the BIG group, makes the dream of Woven City come true. Having combined with industries, commerce, and dynamics, the maps of this city have led to a bright future using advanced technologies that originated from history, customs, and nature.
The woven city will be a place to test smart dynamics through three different types of roads: one for AVs managed by artificial intelligence, a green road for cyclists and scooter riders, and a third road for pedestrians.
The BIG group asserted that three different types of streets lead to equality in transportation and provide space for greenery, hotels, medical clinics, homes, and workspaces, which have been all coordinated in a flexible network.
The group added that the city is called Woven because the streets are like urban fabric and form a woven network that expands and contracts to accommodate indoor and outdoor spaces.
Under this city, away from the eyes of the citizens, this group is implementing a project called Matternet. Basic services, hydrogen energy lines, surface sewage filters, and even goods delivery services are also provided from underground.
Food, Energy, and Data
Any developments in the fields of logistics, agriculture and food, the Internet of Things and robotics, healthcare and education, payments and finance, and smart homes will be tested in this city.
Woven City citizens will eat innovative foods based on advanced molecular knowledge. On April 26, Toyota signed an agreement with Nissin Food production, a well-known fast food company. During this agreement, this company will develop “complete meals” for the woven city.
Nissin will produce personalized, healthy, and delicious meals that will go beyond fast food. These meals will meet all the nutrient needs of the citizens while controlling the amount of salt, sugar, and fat.
Using these nutritious meals, Japan will test ways to solve some problems such as access to healthy and affordable food, food chain problems, food price inflation, and food waste issues.
Woven City’s energy supply projects are also progressing. In March 2022, Toyota signed another agreement with ENEOS Corporation to build the first CO2-free hydrogen energy production and supply system.
Hydrogen fueling stations will power industries, businesses, residents, and vehicles with electric fuel cells.
Last Word
The woven city will also use the Internet of Things, smartphones, and a growing network of interconnected devices to collect and analyze data. Using artificial intelligence analysis, the data will determine patterns and generate policies to efface crime, decrease pollution, reduce traffic, and prepare for inclement weather conditions.
Although proponents claim that smart cities like Woven City represent the future of a healthier planet, some prominent smart cities have encountered several obstacles to achieve their utopian goals. Shannon Mattern, a professor of anthropology at The New School for Social Research, stated that there are a lot of promising things that can be created by smart cities, especially for environmental applications, but it confines your ways of intervention to quantitative measurement. She explained her view by an example: “When you take messy ambiguous dimensions of human nature and try to find ways to algorithmicize them, there is always a failure there, something that slips through the cracks.” History, culture, and the spiritual aspects of life are among those aspects that have been overlooked in smart cities based on critics.
It is obvious that the progress of smart cities is still in the early stages, particularly as technology and concepts continue to evolve. Hence, it is a time-consuming process to scale up the most sustainable models across a city, let alone the world.