Google vision working and living space, no car but skytran pod
Post date: Jul 10, 2010 8:05:50 PM
brainstorming session June 28 2010
about how the city and Google could create a futuristic campus worthy of the company's avant-garde reputation.
source: c2cportal.net | mv-voice.com
People travel in automated pods
and live in apartments among the office buildings.
SkyTran pod prototype at NASA Ames Research Center.
Traffic
Google already shuttles employees in from numerous locations, including San Francisco and Mountain View's downtown train station. And Google places hundreds of unlocked bicycles around North Bayshore to facilitate the mobility of its workers.
Mayor Ronit Bryant.
"It means we have to build huge parking lots, if no cars
Councilman Jac Siegel
The city building a personal rapid transit system,
a system of automated pods that ride on dedicated guideways on the ground or overhead
Councilwoman Abe-Koga
asked why Google couldn't build housing above offices "Living and working"
Famous architect William McDonough,
who inspired the council with a presentation in April, advocates for buildings that can be easily switched between office and housing use.
Commissioner Rachel Grossman
"Locating housing out here is a way to have a more complete neighborhood. People can walk and bike."
t's a way to solve the "traffic challenges we have,"