The wildest future city vision of star architect Ingels and billionaire Lore
"Our vision with Telosa is to build up a new US city from the bottom that sets new global standards for urban living, will expand human potential and emerge as a role model for future generations."
That is how Bjarke Ingels presented his new magnificent project when he unveiled his large-scale American future city Telosa last autumn for the first time.
Denmark's international star architect now explains the joint visions of the giant city project, financed by US billionaire and former Walmart director Marc Lore, planned to rise from the barren desert land.
"Telosa will combine the social and environmental care of Scandinavian culture with the possibilities of US society with self-driving vehicles and massive use of artificial intelligence," Ingels announces.
5 million citizens
As early as 2030, Telosa plans to house the first 50,000 of the five million inhabitants that the future city will embrace over the next 40 years.
"Within the foreseeable future, you will see Telosa rise as a metropolis with Tokyo's cleanliness, New York's diversity and Stockholm's social safety net and services," an enthusiastic Marc Lore adds.
  "Telosa plans to combine the social and environmental care of Scandinavian culture with the possibilities of American society," Bjarke Ingels explains. |
According to the visions, Telosa spreads over 600 square kilometres based on guiding principles of justice, spaciousness and sustainability - water recycling, renewable energy and sustainable mobility.
A focal point for Telosa is city transport, which will prioritize bicycles, pedestrians, and new driverless vehicles as well as future airborne vessels, which BIG currently works on developing.
Role model
The future city's layout operates with 36 dense multi-use districts designed to meet Telosa's 15-minute city principles, which imply that all daily facilities and workplaces must be within a 15-minute walk.
Bjarke Ingel's city vision is powered solely by renewable energy. The individual inhabitant uses 92% less water than in conventional cities and grows 20% of its food in the local environment.
 Telosa plans to prioritize bicycles, pedestrians, and future driverless vehicles as well as new airborne vessels, which Bjarke Ingels Group currently works on developing. |
"With Telosa, we get an extraordinary chance to build a completely new social model that offer people a higher quality of life and richer opportunities," super-entrepreneur Mac Lore emphasizes.
"Looking 30 years into the future, I imagine that Telosa's principles of fairness, justice, sustainability and inclusion will be a model for other cities, indeed, the whole world."
Equitism
Telosa - named after the ancient Greek word telos, meaning highest target - will offer future residents equal access to education, health care and transportation.
The citizens of the future city will have the option to build their own homes and sell them, but Telosa will retain ownership of the land, adds Marc Lore, who calls his city vision "equitism" - a mix of the words equality and capitalism.
 "With Telosa, we will get an extraordinary chance to build a completely new social model that will give people a higher quality of life and richer opportunities," Ingels and Lore emphasize. |
The first establishing phase of Telosa is estimated to cost 25 billion dollars, the future city's total cost over 400 billion, to be financed by investors, philanthropists and public grants and subsidies.
Still, a geographic location remains for Telosa. These possible regions are named so far: Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Texas, and the Appalachian mountain massif, including 13 states in the eastern part of the United States. ●
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