In reality, many professional engineers had designed drainage pipes in cities, and they might be flooded during heavy rainfall, not to mention their group of inexperienced college students?
They could only try to design according to their on understanding.
Ke Shaobin quickly discovered a problem. “Our sand table only has the ground, no underground ah! Therefore, we can’t build the subway, and we can’t build underground gas pipelines and sewer pipes? Is it okay to just do the above-ground part?”
Yue Xingwen said, “Without the underground, it will be much easier!”
If the underground pipes of the entire city were also designed by themselves, it would be too late. The library only gave ground sand tables, which means that they only needed to plan the above-ground appearance of the whole city and didn’t need to care about the details of the underground pipes.
Everyone gathered their spirits and set up fire brigades in open spaces in four districts of the city. Jiang Pingce also built a small military district in the south of the city, as well as the attached military district family home and military hospital.
The design of urban drainage was left to Zhuo Feng as the gatekeeper, who spliced together 1 cm long tubular building blocks to make drainage pipes, arranged according to the terrain distribution, and drained areas where water might accumulate during rain, and finally drew the underground drainage channels.
After doing a good job of the fire brigade and drainage, Yue Xingwen looked at their city sand table again and said, “The residential area occupies about 70%, which is too monotonous. We will increase the height of some residential buildings and change them into office buildings and resort hotels.”
Xu Yishen suggested. “You can build two five-star resort hotels in the south of the city, and then get two 80-story landmark buildings in the city center, so that the overall look of the city’s building is undulating, which is better.”
Xin Yan probably had obsessive-compulsive disorder. The residential buildings in the southern district were his responsibility, and all the buildings were unified 30-story high, which looked neat and square at a glance, like a computer copy and paste.
However, a real city could not have a large area full of uniform-height buildings, in addition to residential areas, hotels, and office buildings were also necessary, otherwise those large enterprises had no place to work.
After hearing this, Xin Yan immediately took action, continued to add building blocks on the basis of the original residential buildings, transformed several of them into large hotels and office buildings, demolished a residential area, remade the model, and transformed it into an office area with centralized office buildings. Immediately after, he imitated Ke Shaobin’s design, vacated space in the southern district, and created a food street.
Xu Yishen gave full play to his imagination and made two unique 60-story high-rise buildings with a sense of technology standing in the city center as a symbol of the city.
With half an hour left before the end of the exam, Yue Xingwen looked at the countdown and said, “Time is running out, let’s think about what else is missing. Students with good handwriting come to my place to gather. We have to name all the neighborhoods and stores as soon as possible.”
The library’s building blocks contained a large number of small ‘plaque’ shaped squares, which could be hung directly on the building as a storefront sign, as well as twelve colors of pens to write on the plaque at will.
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Liu Zhaoqing touched his nose and said, “My writings are not good, you know the doctor’s handwriting, and it’s estimated that no one can read them.”
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Ke Shaobin specialized in writing the name of roadside food shops. He usually loved to find good food everyone, and in a blink of an eye, he wrote a bunch of Lanzhou Beef Ramen, Guilin Rice Noodles, Skewers, Hotpot, Korean Barbecue, Sauerkraut Fish, Sichuan Restaurants and other common food shops in the city, many shops also had branches, with a rich variety of food.
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce were responsible for the naming of residential areas, such as landscape garden, Hehuang Town, Binjiang International New Town, Jinzuo Garden, and so on. Both of them were also racking their brains, writing down the names of the communities they could think of, trying to make most of the residential areas in the city not repeated. When they couldn’t think of anything, they would add the second and third phases of the used real estate.
Qin Lu and Qin Miao were responsible for school naming, what International Bilingual Kindergarten, Binhe Middle School, City Middle School no. 7…
Xin Yan was responsible for the naming of all shopping malls, office buildings and hotels, various Wanda Plaza, Joy Plaza, SOHO Apartments, Resort Hotel, and so on. He wrote the names in proper handwriting and then placed them on the corresponding buildings.
Lan Yarong was responsible for Government Agencies, public prosecutors law and so on.
There was not much time, and everyone wrote quickly and put a name on every building and every community.
When the eight main roads were planned at the beginning, they took names such as ‘Construction Road’ and ‘Renmin Road’, and other small roads without names, Yue Xingwen asked Zhuo Feng and Manluo to check and name. After they all finished the naming, Yue Xingwen carefully checked it, and only then breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Almost done, right?”
There were 15 minutes left for the exam.
Lan Yarong swept a glance across the city’s sand table, saying, “The roadside shops are all food shops, which is too monotonous. How about we add some mother and child shops, dental clinics, beauty and skin care centers, clothing stores and so on, the variety should be able to improve the score?”
Yue Xingwen nodded. “It makes sense. Everyone replaces some food shop signs.”
Ke Shaobin immediately removed the signs of several food shops and revised them, so shops such as Dr. Liu’s dental clinic and Dr. Li’s traditional Chinese medicine clinic quickly appeared all over the city. Several girls wrote signs such as beauty centers, clothing stores, and nail salons.
Qin Lu said, “Kindergarten, primary and secondary schools are not enough, right? Nowaday, children have to learn some talents, such as Latin dance, musical instrument, taekwondo, as well as Go, calligraphy, painting and so on.” She found several street shops in four districts and hung a big sign with the words ‘Talent Training School’, ‘Youth Dance Center’, ‘Black and White Go Club’ and so on, so that the children’s education was more perfect.
There was only the last 10 minutes left in the countdown.
Yue Xingwen’s gaze swept over the city’s sand table again—— There was no shortage of food, clothing, housing, medical, education, culture and entertainment, tourism and vacation. Citizens’ daily life could be fully guaranteed, and there were many places for leisure and entertainment. With such a large and rich urban planning, it was definitely no problem to get a passing score, but he didn’t know if he could get a high score.
Liu Zhaoqing touched his chin and said, “It’s already okay, right? We made such a complicated sand table for 8 hours, we are already very powerful!”
Yue Xingwen said, “Let’s simulate that human beings in this city, from birth to growing old, all aspects of life, all kinds of problems, can it be solved in the city?”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “If you were born, there are several general hospitals, and when you grow up, you can go to kindergarten, as well as various talent training institutions, elementary school, junior high school, high school, and they also can go to local university. After becoming an adult, you can find work in various units in the city. It’s okay to be in a relationship and get married, buy a house and settle in the city.”
Zhuo Feng suddenly said, “We forgot about the wedding company.”
Everyone: “…”
Ke Shaobin complained. “It’s acceptable for a group of single dogs to forget about the wedding celebration. Senior brother, how can you forget it?”
Zhuo Feng coughed lightly. “I’m busy getting the circuit and drainage!”
Lin Manluo said, “This is simple, just change the name of some shops and replace it with a wedding photo studio or wedding company. As for wedding occasions, general hotels have this kind of business, and you can also change a hotel into a professional wedding theme hotel.”
Lan Yarong immediately started to modify it, taking down the sign and hanging it with a new name.
Liu Zhaoqing continued, “The matter of marriage is settled. For the elderly, we have professional nursing homes.”
Ke Shaobin said, “In this way, from birth to old age, all aspects of life can be guaranteed, and our urban planning should be quite excellent, right?”
Liu Zhaoqing suddenly said, “No, what about the dead ah?”
Everyone was stunned.
Yue Xingwen quickly thought of this and didn’t know whether to cry or laugh, “That’s right, what if there are people who died in the city? What about the funeral home? What about crematorium? And the cemetery!”
Everyone: “…”
They really had to consider, life, old age, sickness and death,
At first, they did not expect the crematoriums and cemeteries, but now that they analyzed a person’s life trajectory from birth to old age and then to death, only to find that they had serious loopholes in their planning.
Liu Zhaoqing scratched his head with a smile, “Thanks for remembering, otherwise, once someone dies in our city, there is no place to bury, and there is no place to cremate, will the body rot at home? It’s terrible!”
Jiang Pingce said calmly, “Let’s build the cemetery at the back of the western mountain.”
Zhuo Feng said, “There is still a piece of land at the foot of the mountain, you can build a crematorium and funeral home, it’s too late to demolish and then built another place!”
Everyone hurried until the last time and quickly put together a factory-like building and named it a crematorium; and then made another black building and named it a funeral home. On the hillside on the other side of the West Mountain, Jiang Pingce opened up a vacant land, quickly erected a dense tombstone, and put a sign on the gate, which read: Xishan Cemetery.
Ke Shaobin said seriously, “From birth, schooling, to adulthood, employment, marriage, buying a house, to getting old, and finally death, the citizens’ lives are clearly arranged! Nothing is missed, right?”
Yue Xingwen said, “It’s too late, so be it!”
The countdown came to the final 30 seconds, and everyone stood nervously next to the city’s sand table, once again looking at their 8-hour masterpiece.
On the city’s sand table, which had the size of a soccer field, the roads extended in all directions, and the highways around the city were like two beautiful circles defending the city. On the airport’s apron in the suburbs, there were planes that had just landed; On the tracks of the railway station, there were also trains ready to leave. A well-developed transportation system was the foundation of urban development.
Inside the city, there were many high-rise buildings. Plenty of green trees were planted along the sidewalks, sheltering residents from the scorching sun in summer, and several large wetland parks could improve the environment and air quality throughout the city.
Public prosecution and municipal government were responsible for the management and operations of the entire city; Shopping malls, supermarkets, shops, food streets, medical and educational facilities; The Civic Centre provided convenience for the citizens to handle various businesses; Cultural and entertainment centers such as the Grand Theatre, Gymnasium, and Library enriched the leisure life of residents; Traffic police, fire brigade, and armed forces could also ensure the safety of citizens’ travel and life.
The Research Group 183 rushed to work within 8 hours, and the planned ‘Mingzhou City’ was small but complete!
As the countdown came to 0, a familiar hover box popped up at the same time in the upper right corner——
Congratulations to the C-183 Research Group for completing the <Urban Planning> course of the Faculty of Geography!
Real city planning!
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Hello translator-nim, I think there’s an error in this part? It wasn’t translated and a few chapters Manluo’s name was typed as Mango.
柯少彬吐槽道:“一群单身狗忘了婚庆还说得过”Ke Shaobin complained. “It’s acceptable for a group of single dogs to forget about the wedding celebration. Senior brother, how can you forget it?”