Tokyo has a major problem with overcrowding and a lack of green space. The Takenaka Corporation has proposed Sky City 1000, a vertical city for the 21st century, as a solution.The Sky City proposal consists of a building 1,000 metres tall (about three times the height of the Eiffel Tower in Paris) and 400 metres wide at the base. It has a total floor area of eight square kilometres. It functions like a medium‑sized city with housing, offices, commercial facilities, schools, parks and theatres. It provides for 35,000 full‑time residents and 100,000 workers. Sky City 1000 hopes to provide all the services of a city in an attractive natural environment.The building is made up of 14 dish‑shaped levels stacked one upon the other. To get around such a large building high-speed lifts containing up to 70 people will be used in the building and a small train will run around the roof. Engineers have carried out tests using Tokyo’s fire helicopter to see what the danger would be if there was a fire.The main advantage of Sky City 1000 is that people would be able to get to work, the shops, and schools without getting in a car. However, some people would be scared to live in such a tall building, especially with Japan’s earthquake problems.
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