This is something for developing cities on the Frontier Worlds<br /><br />While listening to an NPR broadcast about President Obama's trip to Africa (NO political comments please) it mentioned that parts of Africa are very non-tech. Like only 1/3 of Africans have regular access to electricity. Now they are trying to bring those areas into the modern world.<br /><br />But this has some interesting benefits. One is that they can skip previous technologies and go with the most modern. So no 50 or 60 year old coal fired electrical generating plants they are going straight to cleaner gas (natural, propane, methane) burning plants. <br />Also they are totally skipping the telephone pole and copper wire system and going straight to cell towers. According to the report there are more cell phones in Africa than in Canada and the US combined (no idea how they keep them charged).<br /><br />This means when construction is complete only the modern things will be there and no remnants to deal with. Things like when comparing European and US cities one notices the small streets in older European cities built when most people walked and few had horses and carts. Also next time you go into a house try to tell when it was built by counting the electrical outlets in a room. Older houses may have only outlet per room while newly built houses have two per wall since we use much electric power these days.<br /><br />Frontier cities are very new; depending on what timeline you use many could be less then 50 years old. This means even the poorer areas are constructed with at least access to the latest technologies and the entire city is much more uniform.<br /><br />Also on a planetary note, there are no areas of long established planetary tradition. Beings started in the main city and spread out to establish farms and smaller cities. They do not live in the country and move to the big city but start in the city and move out to the country.<br />They might also tend to stay in familar groups so Dralasites, Humans, Vrusk and Yazirian ghettos where the home planet customs and language are the norm and Pan-Gal is second might be more normal (watch Copper or Gangs of New York for some ideas on this)
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