Google vision working and living space, no car but skytran pod

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,"