Could a planet-wide city actually be livable?

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]All right, this is a single-person's daily walking radius. And this is the base units that's used to model a planet-wide city, aka an ecumenopolis.

[00:00:09]Cuz in the '60s, when cities were growing at the fastest rate in history, this architect really imagined a planet-wide city. And he said, "This is how it should be built, by starting from a single person, and then a household, and then a neighborhood, and then a city, and finally a planet-wide web, instead of endless [music] skyscrapers."

[00:00:28]He proposed linking human-scale communities along transit corridors, each with nature and people and buildings and networks. He called the system "ekistics," and it [music] ensures that even as cities grow, they stay centered around people. Full video right here.