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Oceanic City is not a city.
Although it is called Oceanic City here, the reality is that
a city as we understand cities is not going to be built with modern
technologies in a floating fashion. One large metropolis free floating in the
middle of the ocean is not a sustainable ecology. Land based cities depend upon
the flow of goods and products into it from exterior sources. Such as food,
most food is raised many miles away from the city where it is grown then
shipped by various transport methods to the city where it is then sold in
stores.
Water and energy is brought into the city as well. Although
cities do have the facilities to process raw goods, such as ores and plant
material into usable products, most of the raw materials are shipped to the
city factories to be processed.
Although Oceanic City will be floating in the sea where
shipping is possible, it must sustain itself naturally and seek to maintain an
economy based on self-sufficiency, seeking to utilize its resources locally and
to not rely upon outside resources where billions of others are clamoring for
those limited and diminishing resources.
Ecologically and economically any system that relies upon
outside resources is flawed and is susceptible to disaster for the most minor
of causes. This system is obviously not working well today; indeed it is by its
very nature the reason why climate change is taking place.
Cities are also psychologically and socially breeding
grounds of crime and injustice. Humans are evolved for small communities, not
densely packed communities of millions where outside of a few (1-2 thousand)
faces the rest of the population become unimportant and either unnoticed or
easy targets where a sense of disconnection makes it easier to deny rights or
commit crimes upon the individual.
Although it is called a City, Oceanic City will not be a
city in its design. It will be close-knit small communities living in close
range of other communities. Each community would have a population ranging from
8,445 to 11,250 for smaller communities up to 17,690 to 22,500 for larger
communities. It is possible that greater numbers can be maintained on the
platforms within the community, future communities will seek to reduce the
population density per platform thus per community.
The Ocean surface is a natural and precious resource. It
would be criminal to think of covering the whole surface of the ocean, as it
would be criminal to do so on land.
Microclimates are generated in major and “mega” cities on land. Acting like
heat sinks local temperatures alone can be increased by several degrees
compared to the surrounding rural and natural land. The same problem could take
place on the sea.
Since Oceanic City will sustain itself on the bounty of the
sea, seeking to farm and culture the ocean, maintaining the ocean water as
pristine as possible will be a major objective in the development of Oceanic
City.
Smaller communities which are designed as micro-ecologies,
where waste management, recycling and producing food and goods for themselves
would greatly reduce the impact of these communities on the natural marine
ecology. The larger the community, or more citified it is the more difficult
the challenge toward sustainability within-itself becomes.
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