Proposed new city of Istanbul premiers in animated video

Istanbul is at such high risk for a devastating earthquake that engineers at Purdue University and the Republic of Turkey have come up with a bold new proposal: build a second city.
A second, satellite city would provide immediate refuge to inhabitants of the old city in the event of a catastrophic earthquake and soften such an event's effects on the nation's economy.
Purdue researchers have created a 3-D fly-through animation showing what the proposed new city would look like. The five-minute animation was produced using new technology developed by the Office of Information Technology at Purdue.
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2008a/080109SozenAnimation.html

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[Willtheartist]

Do not make the mistake many American Cities made in the 50s. My city of Tulsa for instance decided to seperate areas of work, shopping, living. It was a disaster. The city died. Pedestrian friendly streets are no more, the automobile is king. Community found in old cities has been replaced by isolation. Renderings may look nice, but will "live" horribly. The spaces between buildings will cause people to drive everywhere. Seperating work, retail, and living will cause people to drive even more.

[jankovicbojan]

Ridicilous. The "new" city looks like any American city of the day. Ugly, without a soul. Separate areas? You have to do to the other end of the city to get entertainment! This must be a joke. They can not possibly believe that anybody will accept this idea. The least they could have done is made a model that retains the current cultural structure of the city. This is the problem with globalization. IGNORANCE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY!

[miregrc]

American city planning is the worst, the most asocial one in the world. I think the turkish people need to riot if they try to implement this in Turkey.

[ozerozkal]

If you want to prevent to people from dying, you need to strengthen the buildings inner city and suburban which people live in, work in.

The main topic for this city is out migration and renewal of the rest urban areas. Turkey need to create new employment options in other cities, need to build new big cities, which are sustainable, yes true Istanbul is the biggest city and it must survive on this role, but geographic form of the city is not suitable for 12 people or much more to live.

[ozerozkal]

Urbanization in a conservation area always harm it is natural sources, the city always expands, so the forest near this area is gonna harm in years, and it will loose it's value of nature.

The only aim of this plan is create economic source from earth, how sad the biggest economic value is earth for a country. constructions are the main economic source, so they try to create new economic source, but they don't think about the health of the city and it's citizens.

[ozerozkal]

it is really funny, they lie as always they do, they say the cause is earthquake, but this plan contains residential areas for about 2'n half million people, but İstanbul has 12 million people, so we will let 10 million people die.

the plan is awful, no one can make a good, understandable plan from miles miles away. you need to live in the city to plan it.

The area they prefer is away about 30 kilometers from the centre of İstanbul today. It is far far away from the residents of Istanbul

[TurkFutbol10]

People need to understand that we are not doing this plan for entertainment we are ding in the case of a earthquake. Have you ever been to Istanbul? Do you have any idea how narrow the streets are? Also for those who claim most Turkish people cant afford cars, let me tell you that the traffic is one of the biggest problems there..but i think turkey should also spend some money on cities like Izmir, Bursa and Antalya because everybody wants to move to Istanbul and its crowded there

[TaykoTayko]

İstanbul is not capitol you queers.Turkey's capital is Ankara :D:D:D:

[jkickass]

the proposal is disgusting. The people involved with clearly have no qualifications to design human settlements and I hope they were not serious about this plan.