Quite frankly if you read the Unihabitable Earth you will see that cities will face threats such as heat, disease, geo-engineering of the weather, and air pollution. Add food shortages to this and rising sea levels as well as natural disasters, and that’s a realistic picture of what we’ll face when we design our cities of the future. I am talking by 2100 and we need to start imagining those by 2050.

As a science fiction writer I’ve imagined cities that are built underground and under Bucky-type domes described fully in my book theburningyears.squarespace.com. Such cities will save us from heat, disease and also air pollution. They will be self sustaining and provide all their own food and water. Mostly they’ll use living architecture, which is an integration of organic and non organic materials, such as the buildings designed by Dr. Rachel Armstrong and others. It’s the same model I’ve used for an inter-planetary, inter-generational space ship — Perspehone.

Additionally we are already observing unidentified craft according to the US Navy in our skies that are using a form of zero point energy, and we’ll need to learn how to access that effectively to power our cities of the future. One cup of it according to theoretical physicist John Wheeler would make all the oceans on the Earth boil! How we get it is imagined in books 2 and 3!

While I liked this article your architects clearly haven’t understood exactly what we are going to face regarding creating our cities of the future, in order to survive what is coming as a result of climate change. It’s far worse than the white walkers in Game of Thrones, and unfortunately we don’t yet have the necessary dragon glass to save ourselves.