Ecumenopolis - Wikipedia
WEBEcumenopolis (from Ancient Greek οἰκουμένη (oikouménē) 'the inhabited world' and πόλις (pólis) 'city'; lit. 'world city'; pl. ecumenopolises or ecumenopoleis) is the hypothetical concept of a planetwide city.
Star Wars: Earth will never be an ‘ecumenopolis’ like Coruscant, …
WEBMar 22, 2023 · Coruscant, the scientist had learnt earlier, is one of only a handful of city-planets in the galaxy. “It is known as an ecumenopolis,” a digital voice explains.
Could a Planet-Sized City Work? - Science Meets Fiction
WEBSep 13, 2020 · In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, the planet Trantor is a single, huge city spanning its entire surface (also known as an ecumenopolis), an idea that was famously replicated with Coruscant in Star Wars.
Ecumenopoli 101 - Harvard Independent
WEBWhether taken to be the literal planet-spanner of Asimov and sci-fi or the hub-and-spoke universal city of Doxiadis and starry-eyed urban planners, the ecumenopolis is ultimately here to stay — in both our lives and our minds.
Star Wars: Earth will never be an 'ecumenopolis' like Coruscant, …
WEBMar 23, 2023 · Star Wars: Earth will never be an 'ecumenopolis' like Coruscant, but our cities are devouring the world. by Juan Miguel Kanai, The Conversation. Any fan of the galaxy far, far away will have...
Question: what is an Ecumenopolis, and how do I turn a planet ... - Reddit
WEBJul 30, 2021 · Generally speaking an Ecumenopolis is the concept of a city that engulfed an entire planet in Urban Sprawl. A popular example from Sci-Fi literature would be Coruscant, the Capital of the Galactic Republic and later the Galactic Empire in Star Wars.
How Star Wars' Coruscant Became The Planet-Wide City Of Your
WEBMar 15, 2023 · It's Pershing's first time on Coruscant, and during a debriefing about the planet, the word ecumenopolis is heard — the term for an all-encompassing city-planet.
WEBthe earth will be more than 12 billion in one hun-dred years from now and as it is not probable that such strict policies will be implemented imme-diately everywhere, humanity will reach a mini-mum of 25 - 30 billion people. Some people are estimating maximum figures of over 100 billion people, but it is very reasonable to assume that
Ecumenopolis: Thoughts on Worldbuilding City-Planets
WEBJun 1, 2020 · An ecumenopolis or city-planet is perfectly realistic and even likely in space opera and science fiction worldbuilding given a trillions-strong galactic cicivilization, even in galaxies that are extremely rural or mostly wilderness.
(a) Earth's Ecumentopolis (forecast for 2100), according
WEBContext 1. ... in his work Ecumenopolis: Tomorrow's City 1968 [1,2], K. Doxiadis presented a continuous "planetary city" in the form of a linear system of settlement along the coast of the...
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