Planet City

the path towards Planet City runs through political revolution. The paradox of Planet City is that at the current rate of social change, by the time the need for Planet City has fully dawned, the political and financial capacity to build it may be too far eroded to realise it.

if there is one element that recurs and stands out for cities, it is the making and using of vertical options.

Carbon removal or carbon drawdown is widely recognised as a requirement.

We are all already living in a planetary city, a distributed mega structure hiding in plain sight.

It stands as evidence that climate change is no longer a technological problem, but rather an ideological one, rooted in culture and politics.

A third part of the work involves carbon capture and geological injection underground, into rock formations where it can be stored safely for millennia.

As we write stories, we write the world—and in this way storytelling can be considered a critical act of design.

Planet City may be more generative if we consider it to be a temporary destination. What if it was a place to retreat to while giving time for carbon removal and regeneration, while actively restoring the climate?

Seminal biologist Edward O Wilson has written on his “Half Earth” proposal, an “achievable plan” to stave off mass extinction by devoting half the surface of the earth completely to nature.