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- TheWorm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+170With a title like "City of the Future" I was somehow expecting more flying cars and futuristic buildings.
- lalusr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+66i cringe just thinking at how scary this ***** is at night.
- waynechng, on 10/12/2007, -1/+57This island would make an awesome movie set, paintball field, or CS/BF map ...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+41"With a title like 'City of the Future' I was somehow expecting more flying cars and futuristic buildings."
Flying cars are so 2001. - twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39in the bathroom
- sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37Is it for sale? If it is a micronation the Piratebay guys might be interested...
- yipfip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31Why is this titled "City of the future?!"? Modern, yes, but not "from the future!?"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32Like mozt of you I expected a "futuriztic" city but I waz zurprized by the photoz, appreciate the irony and enjoyed the ztory behind them. Interezting article, I felt rather ztimulated.
- commitone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29from wikipedia:
Hashima Island (端島; meaning "Border Island"), commonly called Gunkanjima (軍艦島; meaning "Battleship Island") is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself. The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. The island's most notable features are the abandoned concrete buildings and the sea wall surrounding it.
"Battleship Island" is an English translation of the Japanese nickname for Hashima Island, "Gunkan-jima". The island's nickname came from its apparent resemblance to a battleship, or "gunkan" (jima/shima meaning island) due to its high sea-walls. It also is known as the Ghost Island. It is known for its coal mines and their operation during the industrialization of Japan. Mitsubishi bought the island in 1890 and began the project, the aim of which was retrieving coal from the bottom of the sea. They built Japan's first large concrete building, a block of apartments in 1916 to accommodate their burgeoning ranks of workers, and to protect against typhoon destruction.
In 1959, its residential area population density was 337 people per acre, or 83,476.2 inhabitants per km²[1], supposedly the highest population density ever recorded worldwide.
The movie "Midori Naki Shima" ("The Greenless Island", 1949) was shot there. It was also the setting for the final level in the video game Killer7.
As petroleum replaced coal in Japan in the 1960s, coal mines began shutting down all over the country, and Hashima's mines were no exception. Mitsubishi officially announced the closing of the mine in 1974, and today it is empty, bare, which is why it's called the Ghost Island. Travel to Hashima is currently prohibited. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28Check out this guys galleries of the island: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/saiga/yuji/gallary/menu-e.html
Some were shot in 1974 when it was still inhabited. - lalusr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.6277,129.7385&spn=0.1,0.1&t=h&q=32.6277,129.7385
- snuka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Here are picture from when it was still occupied in 1974.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/saiga/yuji/gallary/1974/top.html
The people generally look pretty happy. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Thats the island The Pirate Bay should buy.
- hoshizakistar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22that's enough out of you, sundaytrain.
- oddmanout, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20google satellite image of theisland http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.6277,129.7385&spn=0.11,0.18
- Loki614, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Future home of ThePirateBay =P
SundayTrain - Total market crash in 6 months? "The sky is falling!" - goosnargh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Battle Royale 2 perhaps
- rewen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15It looks like the setting from a lot of video games actually..
- myheaditches, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Most of what we build relies on the idea that we will be around to keep on maintaining it.
- edzieba, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19It's laSer, not laZer! With an 's'. Who the hell do you know that spells 'stimulated' with a 'z'?
- flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I would play airsoft there. That would kickass.
- Wichenroder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I spent the night there a few years ago and put the pics here:
www.makingplaces.org
and here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oslochad/sets/72057594106377066/
and here are others photos, some quite old:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oslochad/sets/72057594070926204/
Siren 2 is based on the Island in a loose sense also:
http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/siren2/index.html?q=siren%202 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11It's "Gunkanjima," not Gukanjima. "Battleship Island," because it was often mistaken for a warship by ships at sea. It was the inspiration for the island in the bad sequel to the cult Japanese movie Battle Royale, but while the director visited Gunkanjima, they decided to use a similar abandoned mining city in nearby Nagasaki instead.
http://www14.big.or.jp/~kawamura/m-city/gunkan.htm - jake8689, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14i was hoping for silver buildings, flying cars and Lazers can't forget the lazers
- PaulOwen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10There are dozens of abandoned mining islands around Japan.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Hey, that's where I smacked that unit of Combine soldiers around!
- dizzledaking, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I think 3darchive confused "future" with "past", as in this city HAS been abandoned.
- Promantarius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I think the idea is that all cities will end up like that eventually, so theoretically it is what cities of the future may look like when they're abandoned. Fairly deceptive though :/
- trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The first Battle Royale was the best. One of the weirdest movies I have ever seen (in a good way); really makes you wonder what people would do.
- twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6No, this was built in the middle of the 19th century, That would place it at about 150 years old. 1850 would've been the middle of the 19th century.
- planckstudios, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That was beautiful. Great camera, great photographer w/ access to a place 99.9% will never see in our lives.
- SteelChicken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5which is ugly and broken. is it yours?
- simplenation, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11http://duggmirror.com/environment/City_of_the_future_Pics/
- Bega, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4reminds me of junon harbor from ff7
- robellis, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12I was expecting the Infected Mushroom song "cities of the future" :(
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Just as apple trees 'apple', planets like the Earth 'people'. - Alan Watts
- PvtJenkins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think the message is that our current cities will look like that in the future cause we're going to blow the ***** out of each other with bombs, and leave the cities to rot.
- olego, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Come on, everybody, let's people together!
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Wow, it actually *is* a verb! From http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=people :
–verb (used with object)
12. to furnish with people; populate. - yukevster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Pictures before 'the end'.....
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/saiga/yuji/gallary/1974/top.html - Arthemys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ Bega
I agree totally, it's the first thing I thought of when I saw that set of shots. Perhaps there was some inspiration from places like that in the design of Junon? - hellochildren31, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7That is so AWESOME! reminds me just of gears of war and the concept of destroyed beauty.
- hmaugans, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5http://www.duggmirror.com
- kernokerno, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2o rly?
- ElbowGeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wichenroder:
Have you visited http://www.uer.ca? I'm a member and it is a great resource for all things abandoned and explored. - sandkiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What has the title to do with pics?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2the last two pictures really do it... they show this place was alive... and looking at the photos from back then and now is amazing especially the kids playing baseball.
it shows that it's not too far from us. and that we should be careful with the gift we got. - edilclyde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2reminds me of Half-life2:lost coast... only with bigger buildings.
great game btw - Javi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Looks like the perfect setting for the next, creepy, Silent Hill style game.
- Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The title made me think it was going to be like a certain Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
http://www.waltopia.com/vision.html - diggumjonez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The quality of grammar on front-page digg articles the last week has alarmed me. They get worse every day. Either we are a nation proud of our burgeoning illiteracy, or we've become too stupid to care anymore.
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