PG City of the Future Exhibit at CNC
Prince George, B.C. – Ever wonder what the City of Prince George would look like 100 years from now?
Photo courtesy CNC
Well, a new exhibit at the College of New Caledonia tries to answer that question.
The exhibit, by Rolan Abraham, conceptualizes what environmentally sustainable cities will look like in the future through the use of a miniaturized model.
In addition to miniature wood buildings, Rolan has also assigned sustainable and environmental purposes to his models.
For example, his models have imaged how green technologies like solar power, electric energy, and wind turbines will influence public and private transportation, living buildings, energy independent homes, water use, recycling and more.
“This project took a lot of time and imagination,” says Abraham. “I took inspiration from wood scraps from the Wood Innovation & Design Centre. I wanted to use material from the building to design a progressive city model.”
The exhibit is on display in CNC’s library and is open to the public now through November 4.
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If I was to design the PG of the future 100 years from now it would feature 40-story wood buildings that cling to the hillside of Cranbrook Hill giving them the stability and anchoring to become the tallest wood buildings in the world. With the buildings build right into the hillside they could derive their heating and cooling efficiency from geothermal, which would become huge when oil is $500 a barrel. It would give a whole new meaning to ‘the bowl’.
No different than it is now.
I can imagine the street and park names…
Is that $ 500 a barrel in 2015 dollars, Eagle? Or 2115 ones, where the minimum wage, if anybody still has to work by then, might well be $ 150 an hour. Or more, if we went down the wrong path way back in 2015.
The future.. it seems when we think of the changes in future we expect to much.. We do advance very fast in some ways… micro chips etc.. but are horribly lacking on .. replacement fuels for fossil.. air pollution etc.. I think there may need to be a bubble over PG with all industry excluded if we want to be able to breathe clean air
socredible.. I love your little political jab ;) Palopu will love it too.. that way he will have someone to blame back in 2015 for canadas situation in 3075 :-)
Socredible lives in absolute fear of the richest 10% of Canadians being asked to pay more tax. Just how rich are you Socredible ?
Where are the flying cars?
Exactly Axman.. and the food replicators.. come on scientists.. get on it
Rolan , read . The clean disruption of energy and transportation . By Tony Seba . You’re not going to have to wait as long as you think . On the cover is . How Silicon Valley will make Oil , nuclear, natural gas , coal , electric utilities , and conventional cars obsolete by 2030 .
The food replicator is already here . It’s called cell culture and 3D printing .
It’s pretty …. I wonder if the model of the Cadillac-Fairview development proposal of the early 1980s is still stored in the tunnels of CNC. The two could be stored next to each other as visions we will never see……
Everyone knows that PG is more a Cataract Meh-View type of city:~D
Don’t forget to leave room on the shelf for A River Runs Through It pipe dream.
Not sure why Barkerville comes to mind.
Ataloss, interesting point on food replication. The biggest threat to our first world style of life is not how we transport ourselves but rather our dietary habits. Our modern agriculture model is unsustainable & in all probability will not last for the next hundred years. As North Americans we need to seriously re-examine how we obtain & consume our food. It is strange how the so called environmental movement is focused on the fossil fuel industry & the effects on our environment, but is deafeningly silent on an industry whose environmental damaging foot print dwarfs the oil & gas industry. Simply put, our modern agriculture industry is going to kill us & do damage to our planet that will outlast our species if we do not change.
Not sure why Barkerville comes to mind. That’s easy . It’s because when you have nothing left to generate income , tourism becomes the only answer from a society that is out of steam and ideas . Sadly xenophobic societies refuse to learn from others successes .
Detoe you’ve got it backwards . The oil , gas , coal industries dwarf all other activities pollution .
Better start re-researching Ataloss, compared to the pollution & environmental damage done by agriculture, oil & gas does not even come close.
At a consistent increase of 4% per annum on oil, the current price of $45/barrel, it will be $1,440/ a barrel roughly.
So you always have to remember, making $30/hr, is OK. But if Bread cost $3/loaf your working for 10 loafs of bread an hour.
So 40 years from now, your kid is working for $120/hr, but if the loaf of bread is $20/loaf, that’s only 6 loafs an hour.
The value of the product is not going up, it could be your buying power is decreasing.
I agree with Eagleone about building on the hillside. I have always wanted to see a few substantial buildings on the Cranbrook Hill escarpment for the contrast of urban housing and otherwise untouched urban forest with unpaved trails.
Such a building, however, would not be considered to be any taller than the highest floor above the immediately adjacent ground.
In the picture linked, the white modern structure might have about 14 or so floors, but is never that tall off the ground. Typically such buildings have a funicular type elevator with car access from both top and bottom levels.
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It is an interesting piece of sculpture, but resembles cities such as Shanghai much more than PG.
It has provoked some discussion which is one of the things art is supposed to do. The artist has succeeded based on that measure alone.
100 years from now? I envision a new Dodge or GM dealership occupying prime real estate and a new fire station taking up the land where a PAC should have been built.
100 years from now?
The Red Blacks win their first Grey Cup:P
Still can’t get over that name, why didn’t they take a page from old team and come up with something original like Ottawa Eskimos or Ottawa Lions.
LOL, this year has been great fun! Probably still a year or two off from a Grey Cup, but definitely moving in the right direction.
Not too many people are complaining about the name anymore. I agree it was a bit weird at first, but people seem to have bought into it. They’ve done a fantastic job with the team and building support. Games are an absolute blast!
Digitus Impudicus:-“Socredible lives in absolute fear of the richest 10% of Canadians being asked to pay more tax. Just how rich are you Socredible ? ”
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I love the way you phrased that, Digitus. “…being asked to pay more tax”, that is. As if they had a choice. But then with someone like Trudeau in office maybe they will ‘be asked’. And if they say, “No”, then what? Let me guess, and it’s not entirely a guess. The rest of us, including yours truly, who are not anywhere near being the ‘richest 10%’ will be TOLD, not ‘asked’, that we’ll do the paying.
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