Our+Ideal+World's+Physical+Layout

Shakespeare Physical Layout for our Ideal World Having survived a global attack and under the guidance of El Dorado, as a group of fourteen men and women we are on our way to form and construct our new world. Through many council meetings, we have established the components for our new civilization including the layout of the new city. As survivors, we believe our Ideal World will be a place for successful living if it has access to a water source and has some semblance of organization. It is widely known that water is the source of all life; therefore, our Ideal World will need to have access to a source of water. Since water is such a vital requirement for survival, we have decided that our city will be built on a peninsula. Although we share similar views with the inhabitants of the island of Utopia, we will have only one city and live on a peninsula, rather than an island. We know that a peninsula provides our community with three advantages: a food source, an endless supply of water, and a connection to the mainland, if expansion is needed in the future. Being located on the sea fills our kitchens with fresh fish and other types of seafood. Having water on three sides of our city allows us to fish and gather as much seafood as needed. Since we all must eat, seafood will be a good base for our markets and economy since there is such an endless supply. Fortunately, our community has the knowledge of technology; therefore, we are capable of building a facility to desalinate our water since humans cannot survive on salt water. The desalinization plant will provide our community with drinking water and a water source to nourish our crops.

Our Ideal World will be organized around our City Hall building, located in the center of our city, embraced by our religious institutions, and surrounded by residential and recreational facilities. Having the government building at the center of our community will stress the importance of our governmental system. As a democracy, the placement of our City Hall is crucial to the productivity of our society. The centered placement of the City Hall will provide an equal and common ground for all survivors to gather and discuss the important issues at hand. This building will be dome shaped and will not have any doors, only arch ways. Doors will be absent from this building to reassure the survivors that it is always open and ready. The actual physical layout of our city will be similar to Campanella’s, __City of the Sun.__ Our city will consist of circular patterned streets and buildings. We feel that this physical circular layout will make our City Hall an easy place to approach. Surrounding the side of this building will be our religious buildings. Our community will have numerous religions buildings because our society does not favor one religion over the other. We will bring unity to all the differing religions by building all of the places the same fashion as the City Hall, but on a much smaller scale. To reassure this idea of unification, there will be arch ways between each dome, connecting one to the next. This will constantly remind all the survivors that pass through the arches the importance of their beliefs and the unification as a group of survivors.

Government and religion are both important to the organization of our Ideal World, but residential housing and recreational facilities also provide a crucial part to the success of our community. Residential housing can be found outside of the religious circle surrounding the City Hall as well. The placement of our homes is important because it symbolizes the focus on bringing the family back to the center of our lives. It is so easy to spread out away from the heart of a city, but after having gone through the heartaches and obstacles in the previous years, as survivors we need to focus on our families and remember the importance of them. As a group we have decided to allow personal control over one’s own home. While all are responsible for one’s own style and architecture for their home, it is recommended and greatly appreciated if the façade of all residences possess some modesty. Their will be no punishment or persecution if one does not comply with this preference, but once again it would be greatly appreciated. While a survivor is not at rest at home or taking part in a governmental or religious function, he or she can take part in activities provided and housed in our community recreational facilities. Our city will have both artistic and sporting facilities. The sporting facilities can be found on the west side of the peninsula and the facilities promoting the Arts can be located on the eastern side. Our community believes in enriching ourselves both intellectually and physically. We take pride in being able to host a communal football game in the sporting complex as well as the capability to promote a local artist with an exhibition in our Fine Arts Museum.

Our community of survivors is on its way to success. We take pride in our steps to ensure the best lifestyle possible. Our society is based on an open government, embraced by any religion, and focuses on bringing the family back to the center of the community. All together we are ultimately providing the best environment a community has to offer. Not only do we stress the importance of governance and religion, but we also stress the importance of being intellectually equipped and physically fit. We have confidence in our city that it will be a place a survivor can call- Home.