Escape From the Library

【Urban Planning-02】

At eight o'clock in the morning, the course exams started on time.

The images in front of everyone's eyes flickered, and they appeared in a wide hall at the same time.

There are many small parts similar to building blocks placed around the hall, with various colors and shapes.In the middle is a sand table the size of a football field. The sand table is empty, with no buildings or green plants on it.

A line of information is swiped in the floating box in the upper right corner——

[Welcome to the "Urban Planning" examination room of the School of Geography]

[This exam is limited to 8 hours. The sand table in the exam room corresponds to a human city. The map zoom ratio is 1000:1. The area of ​​this city is 7000 square kilometers]

[You need to name the city you build. Every road, every community, every park, and every building must have a name.Please plan the city layout reasonably within the specified time, and the final test score will be determined by the library after acceptance]

【The exam is about to start】

Following the appearance of the last six words, a countdown box popped up on the LCD screen at the front of the hall, showing that the countdown was 08:00:00.

Yue Xingwen quickly called his teammates to his side: "The time limit is 8 hours to complete the planning and design of the entire city. The time is very tight. In the first hour, we will discuss the layout of the city and draw the design drawings."

Zhang Xiaonian took out a laser range finder to measure the sand table, and said: "The area of ​​this sand table is 7000 square meters, and 1 meter on the sand table represents 1000 meters in the city. The ratio must be remembered well, otherwise the building will be destroyed by then." Exceeded."

Jiang Pingce said: "First give our city a name, and make sure it is divided into several districts."

Everyone began to think, and Yue Xingwen suggested: "How about calling Mingzhou City? Simpler, divide it into four administrative districts, East, South, West, and North?"

Qin Lu agreed: "The four districts are relatively neat and easy to plan."

Yue Xingwen took out a piece of paper and asked Jiang Pingce to draw a picture.

Jiang Pingce, who loved mathematics since he was a child, can draw a very standard circle with a pen and a compass, and draw a straight line without the aid of a ruler.Yue Xingwen was very relieved to entrust him to draw the picture.

Jiang Pingce quickly divided a picture into four according to Yue Xingwen's meaning.The straight lines he draws freehand are the same as those drawn with the aid of a ruler.

Seeing this scene, Lan Yarong couldn't help but marvel: "Do all the top students in the mathematics department have the ability to draw straight lines freehand?"

Qin Lu smiled and said, "Not necessarily, people like Ping Ce are in the minority."

Yue Xingwen looked at the four districts planned by Jiang Ping, and said: "The names of the districts, everyone, think of something nice. I think the library score should take into account our intentions. If we directly call the North District and the West District , Chengdong District, you will definitely not get a high score."

Qin Lu made a suggestion: "The east side of the city is next to the river, why not call it Binjiang District?"

Qin Miao followed closely and said, "I think the west side of the mountain can be called Qingyan District."

Ke Shaobin raised his hand excitedly: "How about calling the high-tech zone in the north? Many cities have high-tech zones, which gather various high-tech emerging industries, as well as youth entrepreneurship incubation parks, etc. You can also arrange the university town here."

Xu Yishen said with a smile: "The terrain in the south is like Pingchuan, so why not just call it Pingyang District?"

Discussing things with the top students is straightforward, Yue Xingwen nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, the names of the four administrative districts have been determined in this way, Binjiang District, Qingyan District, High-tech District, Pingyang District, and then plan the road."

Zhuo Feng said with a headache: "Is there anyone here who understands traffic planning?"

Zhang Xiaonian raised his hand to suggest: "This city, looking at the top view of the sand table, has a relatively regular shape. It is a rectangle like a football field. I think it is possible to draw a two-way eight-lane main road in the east-west direction and north-south direction, and then build a ring expressway, which is convenient. When citizens travel long distances, they bypass the congested roads in the urban area and take the expressway directly."

Jiang Pingce said: "We have to draw a separate map for traffic planning. Why don't we first draw eight criss-crossing main roads, then connect them with auxiliary roads and overpasses, and finally determine the entrances and exits of the expressways."

Yue Xingwen looked back at him and said, "Ping Ce, traffic design, this task will be entrusted to you?"

Jiang Pingce said simply, "OK."

Zhuo Feng said with a smile: "It is right to build roads before planning! Only when the traffic is settled can residential areas, life service areas, shopping malls, parks, etc. be set up along the main roads."

Jiang Pingce nodded: "I'll draw the traffic network first." He frowned and looked at the sand table. Zhang Xiaonian had already marked the distance on the sand table. The distance from east to west is 100 meters, and from north to south is 70 meters. According to 1: The ratio of 1000, that is to say, their city is 100 kilometers east-west and 70 kilometers north-south.

While Jiang Pingce was drawing, Yue Xingwen quickly took the name: "The one connecting the east and west is called Jianshe Road, which is divided into Jianshe West Road and Jianshe East Road in the middle. The one connecting the north and south is called Renmin Road, which is divided into Renmin South Road and Renmin North Road. How about it?"

Everyone: "..."

Jianshe Road and Renmin Road are the roads that every city has!Jiang Pingce marked the roads, and for other paths, everyone began to use their imaginations, thinking about the names of the roads in their hometowns and the cities where the university is located, such as Bayi Road, Kunlun Road, Xinhua Road, Xiushui Road, Haitian Road, etc. Lake Road, took a lot of names and put them on it.

There is no way, the library stipulates that they must name all the roads and buildings in the city. A group of households who have difficulty in naming are really going bald.

Half an hour later, Jiang Pingce's road planning map was completed.

The densely packed roads like spider webs shocked everyone.

In addition to the eight main roads running from east to west and north to south, the middle of the main roads is connected by various relatively narrow roads, and the Ring Expressway surrounds and surrounds the entire city from the periphery. From the southernmost point to the northernmost point, you can take the expressway directly and bypass the inner path of the city to save time.

The specifications of the expressway around the city are two-way three-lane, and the maximum time limit is 120 km/h. An entrance and exit of the expressway is designed every 2 kilometers to facilitate the diversion of vehicles.

Time is limited, and Jiang Pingce made this traffic plan according to the suggestions of the students, which is already the limit they can consider.In order to avoid road congestion during commuting hours, they also designed several aerial overpasses on the main road to divert traffic.

After completing the road planning, Yue Xingwen began to arrange tasks: "Zhang Xiaonian, Ke Shaobin, you two, according to Pingce's traffic planning map, first go to the sand table to pave the road, we have to hurry up!"

The two acted immediately.

Zhang Xiaonian has a laser rangefinder in his hand, so don't worry about the accuracy.There are a large number of building block models around the sand table, and the two quickly found the gray model representing the road, and began to lay it on the sand table according to the design drawing.

Others are starting to plan the city's suite.

Zhuo Feng asked: "Should we build hospitals and schools first, or residential areas first?"

Yue Xingwen thought for a while and said: "First plan the supporting facilities such as hospitals, schools, and banks, and then use these as the center to plan residential communities around them to facilitate children's schooling and residents' medical needs."

Lan Yarong said with a smile: "Don't forget the government agencies such as the court, the procuratorate, the city government, and the Public Security Bureau!"

Everyone: "..."

If you think about it carefully, there are really too many things to consider in order to plan a city reasonably.With the rapid development of domestic cities, the transformation of many old urban areas and the expansion of new urban areas require professional transportation, urban, environmental, and architectural talents.

It can be said that the course "Urban Planning" in the Department of Geography requires the cooperation of students from various majors.Only by learning from each other's strengths and brainstorming can we achieve "reasonable" and "perfect".

Yue Xingwen was silent for a moment, and made a suggestion: "How about this, we design a building similar to a 'civic center' in each administrative district, with marriage registration, entry and exit management, pension medical insurance, household registration management, and real estate bureaus. Wait, bring all these common service agencies together to make it easier for citizens to handle affairs.”

Zhuo Feng patted his thigh: "Great idea! Now many big cities have this kind of civic centers. You don't need to run around with documents and stamp them like before. If you want to do something, you can go directly to the civic centers. Everything can be solved." .”

Zhang Xiaonian, who was paving the road in the distance, said positively: "A five-story building can be built, enough to accommodate various departments. The civic center in our hometown is a five-story building."

Regarding the location of the civic center, Jiang Pingce suggested: "It is best to build the civic center in the center of the four districts, and build some wetland parks near the civic center to facilitate walking and fitness."

Lan Yarong began to think about the location of the Public Security Bureau. She said: "This city has four districts, and we need four police sub-bureaus, plus a city bureau under unified management. At the same time, four sub-bureaus are built in four districts. In addition, each district must have a traffic police brigade..."

Jiang Pingce copied a road planning map and asked everyone to fill in the location on the map.

Lan Yarong determined the location of the city government offices in the center of the city.Yue Xingwen confirmed the location of the civic centers in the four districts. With the existence of the civic centers, there is no need to build separate institutions such as the Civil Affairs Bureau and the Housing Management Bureau. They are all concentrated together, saving time and effort.

Followed by hospitals and schools.

A city should have at least a few large-scale general hospitals. Liu Zhaoqing suggested: "Build a large-scale comprehensive people's hospital in the city center; build a mental hospital and two specialized hospitals for infectious diseases in the suburbs. For the rest, build one in each district. A general hospital is almost enough, and if there is spare space, a children’s hospital can also be established.”

Qin Lu said: "In the north of the city, we will build a university town according to Ke Shaobin's suggestion. But how many universities do we want to build?"

Yue Xingwen thought for a while and said: "The university town covers about 5 universities. After all, we are only a third-tier city. The key is primary and secondary schools. I remember that there are a lot of primary and junior high schools in our hometown, almost every few streets. The school is convenient for children to go to school. Let’s think of a few more school names, and build a few key high schools.”

Everyone used their brains one after another, thinking of a lot of school names, and wrote them down on paper for selection.

Xu Yishen said: "City No. [-] Middle School has been designated as a key middle school by you, and the housing in this school district will definitely be very expensive!"

Zhuo Feng also joked: "We, a group of people who can't afford to buy a house in the school district, can now build a house in the school district by ourselves. We decide where the school district is. It feels really cool."

Yue Xingwen couldn't laugh or cry.

Let them a group of laymen go to build the city by themselves, and everyone is in a hurry.However, whenever I hear my teammates put forward a new suggestion, choose a nice name, that strange sense of accomplishment is really no less than the birth of a baby by the School of Biological Sciences.

A brand new city will be born in their hands, and everyone is very excited when they think of this.

Compared with the freezing ice age before, the second course in the Department of Geography is really much more interesting.