- #1
Thomas Hewlett
- 5
- 0
Many cities, such as Rome and Mexico City, have been built over older, preexisting cities. From what I've read however, this tends to happen in stages, especially after disasters like fires or earthquakes.
I'm wondering if it would be theoretically possible to build a completely new city over a still standing modern city and how high you could go. That is, if you somehow kept layering city atop city, what would happen? Would the bottom city layers sink lower and lower into the ground? Would they be crushed? Would the support structure for such a project even be possible?
I realize this is an absurd question, but if I can get even a *tiny* basis in reality for this idea, I could avoid the dreaded "handwaving over the details" so many sci-fi stories rely on.
Thank you in advance for any input!
I'm wondering if it would be theoretically possible to build a completely new city over a still standing modern city and how high you could go. That is, if you somehow kept layering city atop city, what would happen? Would the bottom city layers sink lower and lower into the ground? Would they be crushed? Would the support structure for such a project even be possible?
I realize this is an absurd question, but if I can get even a *tiny* basis in reality for this idea, I could avoid the dreaded "handwaving over the details" so many sci-fi stories rely on.
Thank you in advance for any input!