and half these people live on the north side of the structure without access to sunlight

and at 2 miles high we will have to pay tons of money just to pump drinking water up to the highest levels.

and at the scale proposed most of the structure will not have natural light.

and there are supposedly 500 floors, which is only about ten times as many as those shown.

And to boot its ugly.

We could even require that everyone be “renewed” at age 30. That’s one population control strategy, but we’re still always going to be inextricably linked to the natural world for life support. Our collective fate is forever tied to the health of the planet, and we’d do well to remember that.

Successful villages share the labor and the resources equitably and wisely, while empires feed off the labor and resources of “lesser” people and exploit and externalize them until the empire itself collapses under its own hollow and corrupted weight. We may not merelybethe next – we may be the last.

I wonder, at 74, whether I’ll live long enough to enjoy it!

Walking without rain. No cars. Perhaps we’ll have lots of invalid scooters, though, with less traffic there will be less accidents. Would people be sensible enough to eat properly and avoid major diseases? I suppose they would have to die of something eventually though.

Could clubs and music concerts really be sound-proofed, I wonder.

I think the best solution would be to stop wasting space and soil, the buildings like that could be used as farms. Bring the soil needed into he building to stop wasting space for farming, use space to build family houses with back yards and garage. This would make cities less crowded. Many places with rich soil are covered with concrete and places with poor soil are used to grow food. Why? All the space can be one big city with Ultima Farm Towers. Few sky scrapers for 10km sq would be enoth to provide services and jobs for everybody. I am against this idea.

Not bad, except, I like the idea of my own house.

But then again, there is always the dilemma of the impromptu display of apocalyptic power that our beloved mother nature shows us. If, any form of natural disaster decides to throw it’s wrath upon the Ultima tower city, then I’m afraid that the concordant consequences could be macabre indeed. There is no method of mass evacuation for people living on the higher stories, or even for the lower floors in fact, save helicopter, which can hardly be considered as a method of mass evacuation to me at least. The disaster does not even have to be natural for morbid results to follow. If there is even a minor fire, it could erupt into a major disaster for there is a controlled atmosphere for something like this to occur.

On the whole, in my opinion the Ultima Tower Ciy COULD be an architectural masterpiece and solve the issue of the population explosion of the human race OR could end up as a controlled environment for a disaster or pathetically misguided acts of terrorism. People may not even accept the idea of living in a human ‘beehive’.
Life could be disturbing, or promising; all we can do is wait and watch.

Today’s news reports swarms of earthquakes beneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.

If the Yellowstone super volcano blows, a huge number of people will need to be evacuated.

Would large structures such as this located in the southeastern parts of the U.S. serve as emergency shelters leaving the remaining surrounding area for sealed and artificially illuminated green houses for the producing of food?

Like the Katrina disaster, the present U.S. government has no idea how to manage a Yellowstone blowout.

“One day” maybe..