As a builder and conservationist I agree with most all of your principles regarding eco sustainability but I have to drive to go see you.

I commend your approach and look forward to hearing from you all.

To emphasize urgency, I am presenting our project as The Transition Race to Peace and Sustainability and proposing a demonstration project in Los Angeles to coincide with the Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan approved by LA City Council in 2007.

In a 3-minute video I give a brief introduction: http://www.holigent.org/Site/The_LA_P%26S_Project.html
You are welcome to go from there to explore the concept of the Transitional Urban Village and the Holigent Solution on the other pages of our website.

I will be glad to contribute constructive ideas to the “City of the Future” Project. If you have an interest to discuss these ideas further please contact me.

http://www.smallfarmersjournal.com is only a pale electronic shadow of the vibrant, rowdy, passionate, rebellious, disciplined, dedicated community that makes up the community of practical horse powered farming.

Farming is not so much science as art with an overlay of craft.

Our industrial system of food production will not stand. It was temporary. And toxic.

PS Arcosanti’s peach orchard looks ok, better than the last time I saw it.

I very specifically left contracting around the Beltway(as the greater metropolitan Washington D.C. region is designated) due to over a decade of experiencing gridlocked commutes. Few working for the government or it’s commerce can predict commute ‘windows’ less than 45 minutes, or all-too-often greater than 3 hours long, along the same routes!

Hengning Wu’s Autoway reads like a fantastic solution to the troubled traffic currently & daily along Route7 (the main drag through most of Reston).

Please don’t wait until City 2.0 to apply the Autoway solution, if it can be built around northern Virginia & WDC.

How do you plan to get subscribers to pay fares on this system? Would you use an extension of the current Metro-pass (part of the greater metropolitan WDC light-rail & subway system)?

How would the Autoway be integrated into (or replace?) the current transportation grid?

How do you propose financing construction of the Autoway? That region is already deluged with N.VA bonds, and very costly motorways like the Dulles Toll Road.

Dr. Gridlock would love to know, I’m quite sure.

I am very supportive of the corporate voting system and absence of internal combustion engines

According to my observations, the two most important factors for a better city are:1)the people,what they do for a living, and its culture, and 2)the transportation.

The diversity of the working and recreational activities of citizens suggests that personal transportation system is the most effective way. For a moment, please forget car. Or for that matter, forget about technology limitations. Just wish you have a magic vehicle to move you around, like Aladdin’s flying carpet. Most of the time you need a personal transportation. Examples of existing personal transportation include walking, bike, motorcycle, and car.

The right question is to design a better personal transportation. I have invented one called Autoway Personal automated transportation system. (http://www.acroscape.com/transportation.html). It uses electricity and has a fuel efficiency of 500 miles/gallon. I need $10 million to build a fully functional test system. Just need $120,000 to build the vehicle in my garage.

With this, we can build the garden city of tommorrow(http://www.acroscape.com/garden.pdf). The city will have three networks of transportation: Autoway, road, and trail. Notice the separation of street from road. Street is no longer a complete network, but only exists near buildings and is primarily for walking. Occasionally, ambulance, fire trucks, buses, and shipping trucks may get into a street.

This concept can be used to build a new city or convert existing cities into more livable urban villages.

Of course, the technology is in the development stage. There will be evolutions. The main idea will stay.

Treasure Island restoration & eco-project
http://www.arup.com/americas/project.cfm?pageid=9639

Accross the ‘pond’ a new Eco-city, designed for half a million residents; Dongtan:
http://www.arup.com/arup/feature.cfm?pageid=9872

A badly mismanaged, but good concept was & remains the New Jersey Co-Op City:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-op_City,_Bronx

With room for 40,000 residents, in 15,000 apartments of various size, Co-Op City is probably closest to what you were proposing with the City 2.0 concept. Built in a swamp by corrupt unions, and partly mismanaged by corrupt officials over 30 years, it still comes closest to the owner-controlled community you envisioned.
Add better & more modern Power, transportation and Recycling, and this is a very simple upgrade to a real living Arcology.

With just slightly better Architecture, with unified pedestrian walkways, covered multi-story parking garages, and sloping terraced condominiums, like at Alt-Erlaa and City 2.0 could be an easy sell.

Add a few big-box stores to anchor the shopping malls, and start your own Telsa Taxi service, and everything pays for itself quickly.

Also note that Co-Op City only uses %20 of it’s available land. This fits nicely with your vision of City 2.0