Abstract
Deanothen
Behold Deanothen! Discover it from above and below! In 2199 A.D., Detroit has been reborn into a new semi-subterranean city. Imagine beautiful green spaces replacing deteriorated homes and businesses. Picture a city that has unmatched health and security. Envision a city where the environment has been reclaimed and is pristine once again. You have discovered Deanothen!
New homes and commercial buildings are designed as underground complexes several stories deep. The land above has been transformed into lush green spaces including parks, forests, and hyperbaric agricultural biospheres. Plant life is enclosed in biosphere domes, pumping oxygen into underground buildings.
Each building is self-contained and pressurized to two atmospheres, with a 30% oxygen environment, allowing longer, healthier lives. Heating and cooling costs are reduced since underground temperature remains a consistent 56°F. UV radiation is filtered out and sunlight is brought into the buildings through super-optics, giving the impression of natural light. Holographic windows create a feeling of the outdoors.
An innovative “reverse-intestine” cycle internally purifies the sewage before recycling it into the clean water supply using nano bacteria. All contaminated soil around the buildings is analyzed, removed, and treated. Outside wall structures and piping are designed to resist chemical infiltration. All waste services are self-maintained.
Water from the Detroit River passes through a molecular separator, providing hydrogen for fuel cells. Oxygen is diverted to the buildings to keep our 30% oxygen atmosphere.
Roads into the city descend to the underground road network. Parking decks are located near the top floors of the underground complexes. The road surface consists of charged grids that direct energy through vehicle tires without affecting other objects. The grids are charged by solar energy collected from full-spectrum solar-cell shingles on above-ground structures.
Rosa Parks International Transit Station, part of our mass transportation system, was developed to accommodate our new subterranean transportation network. It is a major security entrance and center of all personal and mass transportation.
Deanothen’s economy is generated from research and sales related to the technology developed in creating the hyperbaric-like environment. From preserving organs and enhanced surgeries, to creating rustless steel, the hyperbaric environment offers many occupations. A soil-reclaiming technique which cleans contaminated soil allows for the sale of both the filtered soil and its by-products.
Security is controlled through wireless communication, with many devices imbedded into clothing. Emergency situations are communicated to authorities and individuals of concern. Privacy is maintained with encrypted codes. The city’s infrastructure is connected through a main computer network. Semi-subterranean structures minimize effects of terrorist attacks. Earthquake preparation has been designed using anti-shock supports for each building.
Artificial Intelligence robots teach our students. Holographic screens allow historical events to be reenacted for learning purposes. Any subject is available on memory cards. Learning glasses are worn to see textbook visual images, no books are necessary. Besides teaching, robots are used to perform unskilled and dangerous tasks.
There are endless entertainment opportunities, including semi-underground amusement parks and many surface parks and lush green spaces.
Discover Deanothen and enjoy living!
Essay
Deanothen
Detroit has been reborn. In 2199 A.D., over a million people have moved to the city as it prepares for its 500 th anniversary. The city planners are improving it’s communities by redeveloping many small, run-down and abandoned properties into semi-subterranean neighborhoods. As part of the master plan, all feasibility studies must address cost effectiveness, availability of sewer/water utilities, transportation access, soil analysis, and market analysis.
Rosa Parks International ( RPI) Transit Station was developed in Deanothen to accommodate the travel methods used by the people who have migrated back to the city. An abandoned strip mall exists next to the station and has been an eyesore for many years. It rests on a relatively flat five acre rectangular lot (grade is less than 5%).
A mixed zoned structure, called Cadillac Sub-Tower, is to be built on the site that offers retail, services, lodging, and residential space. It will be a major attraction to those living in and visiting the city. This 1.8 million square foot building has 22 floors below ground and eight floors above, which includes parking.
A feasibility plan was developed for Cadillac Sub-Tower that includes the cost to teardown and rebuild the property. Water is plentiful because it’s drawn from nearby Lake St. Clair. The 250 year-old water and sewer lines were built with brick and concrete. They leaked and were inefficient.
Due to the multi-level, dense population within the site, there will be a heavy water/sewage service demand. For cost and efficiency, the building’s water and waste will be self-treated on-site with a revolutionary “reverse-intestine” cycle process. It internally purifies the water before recycling it into the clean water supply using nano bacteria.
Subterranean pedestrian transport terminals are located at the RPI Transit Station. The infrastructure from the RPI Transit Station to the site will be developed underground. The Cadillac Sub-Tower location and some of the roads and pavement surrounding it have been abandoned for 50 years. The proposed roads leading to the site will be constructed of Solar-Tech, the newest standard in road technology. There will be a computerized underground vertical parking depot to support hundreds of individual transport vehicles. Key floors have hub access to Deanothen’s cable-less, magnetic powered horizontalators, or horizontal elevators. These move pedestrians quickly in tunnels between the destinations in the subterranean city.
Soil identification shows porous sand and silt characteristics exist down to 40 feet below ground, followed by dense clay and bedrock down another 220 feet. The bedrock will support the foundation of the Cadillac Sub-Tower. There is no evidence of standing water or sedimentation. Because a strip mall existed on a relatively flat, well-drained site, there was not much evidence of soil erosion, unwanted trees, or vegetation.
Soil analysis shows that BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene) chemical contamination from an abandoned gas station is very high, over 200,000 parts/billion (ppb). The Cadillac Sub-Tower subterranean structure must be protected from the contamination in the porous sand/silt that exists in the upper 40 feet. The soil will be removed from the building’s footprint and cleaned using Dynam-Ox technology. The same technology is used to clean the surrounding soil. It oxygenates the gasoline and removes the chemical contamination. The process cleans the soil and recycles it as an energy source. The building will also have an outer shield coating and vapor sensors to monitor risk levels.
There are many engineering and surveying jobs needed to complete a feasibility plan for a successful land redevelopment project. The chemical/environmental engineer must complete an environmental site assessment. The person needs to review regulations for past and future land uses and determine if any contamination exists. They collect soil and groundwater samples across the property for analysis. They search the property for buried items. They then decide the risk to humans and the environment. If the project is feasible, they can start the building of our future.
With redevelopments like the Cadillac Sub-Tower, Deanothen is a city that residents are proud to call home.
