The Japanese Government has revealed a radical plan to construct a standby city for Tokyo. The Integrated Resort, Tourism, Business and BackupCity, known as IRTBBC, will provide backup to the capital in an event of an immobilizing earthquake.
IRTBBC will incorporate all vital functions of government, with duplicate facilities for parliament and ministries. Offices complexes, resort facilities, casinos, parks, and the tallest tower in the world at 652 meters, will employ 50,000 IRTBBC residents and over 150,000 workers from the nearby city of Osaka. The government is considering the existing 1236 acre site of the Itami Airport, located approximately 300 miles west of Tokyo.
A member of the ruling Democratic Party, Hajime Ishii, stated, “The idea is being able to have a back-up, a spare battery for the functions of the nation.”
Reference: World Architecture News
Mmmmmmm nice to see the aid money everyone donated post-tsunami is helping the people that need it… WHAT A JOKE!
Sounds good to me. I can think of a few cities with new developments that probably wish they could ‘right click, open previous version’ and start again…
Why not build a new diffrent beautiful city.Copy means nothing.
This really reminds me of something very similar from the Japanese anime Neon Genesis Evangelion.
but nobody can build second life after earthquake…
rather than having a ‘backup’ city why not create another city where its functions as a secondary to what tokyo is. a supplementary city. The city could function at a 50% rate and when the times come can be use fully