David Dobereiner - Matripolis

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1. Adopt participatory planning principles to enable urban district residents to control development in their own district.
2. Promote greening of cities with block sized parks at centers of superblocks.
3. Connect all parks with elevated pedestrian circulation system.
4. Close all park circumferential roads to vehicular traffic.

* Institute new zoning regulations requiring all future development to be mixed use as stipulated by district residents, air rights over all urban roads ceded to adjacent properties in compensation for severe set back restrictions adjacent to parks.
* Exterior walls allowed only for residential and community facilities or light commercial if resident approved.
* Roofs should be flat and required to retain about 60 cm. depth of earth. except where paved for pedestrian use, or exceptionally, for VTOL landing pads.
* Organic wastes to be hygenically composted and sent back to the soil.
* Manufacturers should be required to take back their products for dis-assembly and re-use.
* Surplus rain water should be collected for re-distribution in hot dry weather.
* No processes or activities producing toxic emissions should be permitted.