Beacon Cities

THE ROUTE 1 & 3 CORRIDOR BEACON CITIES

Ancient towns can teach us a lot about how to build modern ones. What should people expect from modern cities? What are some of the most essential aspects that influence the prosperity of a city? Many of the solutions, believe it or not, may be found in ancient towns.

Consider this: old towns were designed primarily for humans, not automobiles; in fact, some ancient cities barely accommodated horse drawn carriages. Modern urban planning’s “design for people, not automobiles” approach might thus be seen a basic continuation or rebirth of classical design principles: keep everything within walking distance, design for beauty, assure safety, and promote social interaction via gathering areas.

In many aspects, smart cities are simply excellent urban design that combines improvements in digital technology as well as fresh thinking in age-old city principles such as connections, community, environmental sustainability, participatory democracy, good governance, and transparency.

Route 1, 2, 3, and 6 Beacon Cities are also key energy centres for the Corridors.

Major railway stations will serve “Corridor’s Beacon Cities” via modern mobility temples.

The intelligent city concept frequently incorporates city re-urbanization, encouraging urbanites to devote their time, energy, and talents to the continuing urban endeavour via a new layer of technological connectedness.

As a result, a virtuous circle is developed in which the city enables its residents to drive its progress, resulting in a positive feedback loop. Smart cities, above all, are interactive cities. Rapid modernization of train stations is taking place. Modern high-speed intercity rail service competes with short- to medium-haul air traffic and driving in terms of cost, convenience, and time savings, and it is growing quickly.

Train stations have organically grown into important urban centres for commuter and metro rail lines.

The enormous numbers of commuters who use major railway stations every day has made city planners realise that train stations should provide extra services.

Planners are beginning to see the potential of regularly used railway stations to revitalize entire urban neighbourhoods as well as integrate and connect previously dispersed areas into the contemporary metropolis.

Last but not least, more and more people are realizing how much more ecologically beneficial rail travel is compared to other options.

The Route 1 Corridor medium stations will be built on a lower size but with the same idea.

Route 1, 2, 3 and 6 Corridor medium-sized stations will be built on a lower smaller scale but with the same concepts being kept.

 

Each Corridor Beacon City, one for each state, is designed around a major railway station and is a mixed-use city with six key areas of interest:

  • A world-class inland dry port.
  • An industrial zone close to the Dry Port.
  • A Free Trade Zone Status in the Dry-Port
  • Financial District. (CBD – Central Business District)
  • Education and Innovation Zone.
  • Green Zones, Parks, Resorts; and Residential Areas will be recommended, and enhancements for existing settlements will be undertaken where suitable, depending on the city location.

 

Duty-free zones with warehousing, storage, and distribution facilities are available at each dry port in Beacon City.

These zones allow for the handling, manufacturing and re-exporting of goods and services without the involvement of customs officials.

Beacon City Buildings

Why do landmarks matter so much to cities?

They foster a feeling of identity and represent a city’s history and core values to residents and tourists.

Skyscrapers frequently serve as a monument to a city’s prosperous past or recent technological developments.

Modern urban city design produces future city beacons that spread the new ideologies of sustainability, eco-friendly living, and responsible behaviour.

City development may showcase all the advancements in technology and thinking in landmarks, from aerodynamically built glass buildings to modernizing historic monuments with environmentally friendly solutions to creating state-of-the-art transit halls and tunnels.

Beacon City Technology

What makes the world go around? Technology that is cutting-edge.

Green technologies are redefining how people interact with and affect their surroundings in mobility, construction, energy, and manufacturing.

Technology advancements are illuminating the way to the future, allowing us to envision communities where smart illuminated panels show traffic information and wearables lead us to the nearest hospital, or where city sponsored bikes share lanes with electric automobiles.

New and inventive ideas disturb established patterns, allowing for new ways of thinking and energy-saving solutions such as “lean manufacturing” or “green roofing.”

It keeps us moving forward and in the correct direction – towards a sustainable future.

Beacon City Sustainability

People’s influence on the environment during the previous century may be irreparable, but individual residents, governments, scientists, and inventors, and even corporations are banding together to convert a negative into a good.

Ecologically sustainable development is based on the ideals of minimal waste, reduced consumption, and shifting to green, environmentally sustainable resources such as solar and wind, as well as materials that can be continuously up-cycled.

Cradle-to-grave design and thinking are altering the way we consume and dispose of garbage by concentrating on solutions that have only a positive impact and leave almost no footprint. (carbon neutral)

Beacon City Healthcare

Medical facilities in Beacon Communities play a significant role in the social structure and the economic vitality of cities.

These facilities include hospitals and day clinics along the Route 1, 2, 3 and 6 Corridors.

While the health of people is the industry’s main concern, it also creates jobs and makes a significant contribution to economic growth.

Each Route’s Corridor Beacon Cities will have single day clinics.

A number of  large regional hospitals (1200 beds each) will be situated in well thought-out locations along the Route 1, 2,3, and 6 Corridors.

Day clinics, large hospitals and other healthcare facilities will be connected to the Internet (and thus each other) using a fibre-optic backbone for high-speed internet access.

Hospitals and day-clinics will work together and contact patients more regularly and schedule frequent at the day-clinic appointments, a less expensive location in the healthcare system, in an effort to make healthcare less reactive and more proactive.

In locations with significant poverty, access to medical care is especially crucial.