Project 2017
Project 2017 was an urban planning program concerned with the redevelopment of asian slum districts.
An enormous urban growth lead to increasing ground prices around the megacities. The government regarded the slums sprawling in those areas with increasing resentment. It intitatet Project 2017. In order to gain space, the slum dwellings were piled up one ontop another. Fearing dropping values of the new won construction spaces, the slums were surrounded by a façade of residential buildings. The "conclaves" had come into being.Outside, the construction zones were littered with skyscrapers, expensive apartment estates and shopping malls. By and by, also the conclaves were overbuilt. The former slums disappeared into oblivion.
Also when the world economy collapsed more than one hundred years later, nobody could remember the run-down and underdeveloped parts of the megacity. Nor their obscure economic system, which has symbiotically kept alive the city and, interconnected with which, the whole world.
But the slum dwellers have survived. Buried deep beneath the urban undergrowth, they have found new means of existence. Today, they almost live like they did a century ago. Only have the neon lights over their heads become their heaven, the ventilators their suns, solely shedding light onto this long forgotten civilisation.
Among others, i was inspired by the word "conclave" in Neal Sephensons book " Diamond Age"
