
Episode 370: Planning for Underground Cities
Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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The Public Versus the Private of Life Safety Systems
Life safety issues are almost even bigger when you're going underground, because you have to have exits to get to somewhere else. That's a really important point imen life safety systems. In london, for examptin kensington and chelsea, i had to understand exactly how many of these massive underground spaces, private ones exist. At that time, they were around 100 each in that burrow,. which would go definitely beyond the 18 metr below surface. And they were all private. But then that was stopped because the public reception was not quite acceptable. The rule at that time was that everyone can actually go underground. By the 50 % of their land area, they can
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