Japan's Underground City: Alice Cities

Japan’s Taisei Corporation of Tokyo’s plan on creating “Alice Cities” is quite overwhelming. “Alice Cities” named after a story called Alice in Wonderland, a story about a girl who fell into a rabbit hole and discovers a land of wonder.

Alice City will be another solution to overcome and ease the overflowing crowds, the increase of energy, and also to protect many lives from earthquakes. The Japanese will welcome a new place to live, less quakes, ad an almost-constant temperature.

The idea of Alice City reflects the so-called Millennium Era where living sophisticatedly in the modern world is a main priority to most people. With the new and high technologies, anything is possible.

Alice City consists of three different sectors: Town Space, Office Space, and Infrastructure Space. Town Space will provide luxurious lifestyles with underground boulevards and open-air, atrium-type plazas free of automobile traffics. Office Space will supply business operations, hotel and parking lots. Infrastructure Space will contain facilities for power generation, regional heating and air-conditioning, waste recycling, and sewage treatment.

There are many disadvantages from Alice City such as a large opportunity to plant more trees and a chance for farmers to grow more crops on land. To some people, Alice City is impossible and too fictional. In other words, it is against the Nature’s Law. A new disaster may occur in the existing ecosystem. Many underground animals and creatures will lose their habitats and there’s a possibility of destroying the earth’s inner body.

So the whole plan must be thought over because people must not wreck the nature just to satisfy themselves with extra-high quality of pleasures.