A Fracking City? We've seen images of the North Dakota boom towns, but here's a proposal for the other side of the pond. Blackpool, England, on the northwest coast of England, has seen its tourist industry decline, and is searching for a new identity. UCL Bartlett student Jason Lamb thinks that the future could be the controversial industry of hydraulic fracturing (AKA, fracking), and he wants to completely overhaul the entire urban infrastructure to facilitate and rethink the benefits of the practice. The scheme is detailed in a set of hand-drawn tableaus that comprised his thesis project: The theoretical community sits on a bedrock of shale, and Lamb wants to exploit this natural resource by extracting it, creating energy and job growth. The negative impacts of the dangerous technique are turned on their head, trading in poisoned groundwater for water reuse and urban farming, all with a large Chinese investment. The utopian town, rechristened Frackpool, features 35 fracking stations that use pressurized water to release natural gases, and then recirculate the water back around the town, ...
A Fracking City? We've seen images of the North Dakota boom towns, but here's a proposal for the other side of the pond. Blackpool, England, on the northwest coast of England, has seen its tourist industry decline, and is searching for a new identity. UCL Bartlett student Jason Lamb thinks that the future could be the controversial industry of hydraulic fracturing (AKA, fracking), and he wants to completely overhaul the entire urban infrastructure to facilitate and rethink the benefits of the practice. The scheme is detailed in a set of hand-drawn tableaus that comprised his thesis project: The theoretical community sits on a bedrock of shale, and Lamb wants to exploit this natural resource by extracting it, creating energy and job growth. The negative impacts of the dangerous technique are turned on their head, trading in poisoned groundwater for water reuse and urban farming, all with a large Chinese investment. The utopian town, rechristened Frackpool, features 35 fracking stations that use pressurized water to release natural gases, and then recirculate the water back around the town, ...