Chapter 587： Urban planning and environmental issues

Now that we want to establish metropolitan areas like Paris and London, the entire city will have to be re-planned. Because at present, the expected population capacity of Aurich and Emden is only 20,000. When the two cities add up, they can accommodate up to 40,000 people.

Therefore, if you want to build a metropolis, you must expand the size of the city. But there is a problem-in this era, cities must build city walls ...

Because, in this era, there is still war. In order to ensure the safety of the city, a tall city wall must be built to protect the safety of the city. Unlike later generations, the city only canceled the city wall because of world peace and weapons that could easily penetrate the city wall.

But this era is different because of the threat of war, and the city walls can fully resist the enemy's attack. Therefore, the richer the city, the greater the need to build tall and strong walls.

However, in this way, it runs counter to the development of the city. Because, while ensuring the safety of the city, the city wall also limits the expansion of the city.

Of course, these are small things. The biggest problem is that in this era, there are not enough floating population!

For a city to develop, it must have enough floating population. Why are there so many floating populations in later generations? Because agriculture is mechanized! In the era of lack of agricultural machinery, farmers are trapped on the land, so it takes a lot of manpower to plant the cultivated land, and harvesting also requires a lot of manpower. Moreover, in order to grow the land, the farmers are very hard, and it is very appropriate to use the phrase "facing the loess and facing the sky".

However, with the popularity of agricultural machinery after the 1990s, everything from arable land, sowing to harvesting has been mechanized. At this time, the rural population was idle. Because there is no need for strong support from the family, women and the elderly can hire machinery to help them work, and no longer need to contribute. Then, there was a boom in part-time jobs, and the migrant workers squeezed the north and north.

However, without agricultural machinery, Marin cannot allow the serfs in the manor to flood into the city and become citizens. Because, it will waste the farmland.

Thinking about it, Marin can only be enriched by recruiting the surplus population of other princes. Merchants are also attracted from other German regions mainly through good policies. For example, Marin will legislate to protect businessmen, and learn the Western laws of later generations, which stipulates that "private property is sacred and inviolable" and does not allow noblemen to bully and blackmail those businessmen. Only in this way will it be attractive enough to businessmen.

It's just that because of the cost of building the city wall and the limitation of too few floating populations, Marin's idea of ​​building a metropolis with a population of one million cannot be realized. Now Marin has only set a small goal, that is, to let the metropolitan area have a population of more than 100,000 to reach the level of Milan City ...

Fortunately, Marin now has cement manufacturing technology and can produce cement in large quantities. As long as the cement production base in Corner Brook in Newfoundland is fully constructed and production capacity has begun to erupt, Marin can obtain a large amount of cement supply, thereby building the city more cheaply.

Now, the first thing Marin has to do is to repair the cement road from Aurich to Emden. Moreover, it must be large enough to repair.

Previously, due to cost considerations, the experimental cement road by Marlin was only 20 centimeters thick and 3.5 meters wide. Such a road can only be said to be barely enough. However, it is too narrow to be used in the main roads of the metropolitan area.

Therefore, Marin decided to build a major two-way, four-lane highway this time. Of course, the width can't be compared with future generations. In the later two-way four-lane highway, the width of each lane reached 3.75 meters, which was larger than the width of the rural cement road. However, that is because of the wider width of the later generation trucks.

But this era is different, the width of the wagon wheel is generally more than one meter. The British standard is usually 1435 mm, which later became the width of the rail.

Of course, rail and rail are different. Railcars can accurately travel on rails, while trackless cars can easily swing left and right. Therefore, the width of highway lanes is generally much larger than the width of the vehicle body.

Considering that the width of the carriage generally does not exceed 1.5 meters, Marin finally decided-the width of the single lane is set to 2 meters. With four lanes, it would be 8 meters. But because there is a block in the middle, the final road width is set to 10 meters. The thickness is increased to 25 cm. The total length from Aurich to Emden is within 20 kilometers. Therefore, the engineering team needed to build a large concrete road 20 kilometers long, 10 meters wide, and 20 centimeters thick in order to achieve rapid communication between the two cities.

As for the interior of the two cities, the two four-lane roads are no longer needed. Moreover, the cost of this road is also higher. Marin intends to use two east-west and north-south avenues, 5 meters wide, in the city. On other roads, rural-grade cement roads with a width of 3.5 meters are still being constructed. After all, the wagons are not wide and there are not many in this year. Normal road, 3.5 meters wide is enough. Even when visiting the city, Marin found many small streets that were only one or two meters wide.

In addition, new cities also require new planning. In addition to the planning of the main streets, the drainage system is the most important, and there are public toilets.

Drainage trenches need to be constructed with cement, which also facilitates the drainage of sewage. For public toilets, this is very important. Why? Because Marin wants to collect manure from the urban population as fertilizer.

Therefore, Marin ordered to promote the use of toilets in the city. Moreover, strict regulations require every household to dump the excrement in the toilet every morning in the nearby public toilets. Anyone who defecates anywhere will be heavily punished. Then, Marin arranged serfs every day to go to the public toilets of various communities early in the morning and use a manure truck to transport the manure in the pond. It is then transported to a fertilizer processing plant and processed into fertilizer.

Of course, on the surface, Marin's statement is that the feces are too smelly and must be pulled out of the city for disposal. As for how to deal with it, it does not matter to the residents.

For the sake of confidentiality, Marin's men and women who transport manure and fertilizer processing plants are regarded as employees of "state-owned units", and their treatment is good. That is, the usual working environment is a bit harsh. But Marin also sent them masks to prevent them from being smoked to death. In addition, at the end of each day's work, I will take a bath in the bathroom specially constructed by the fertilizer processing plant to wash away the smell of feces.

After several years of management, the feces of the city under Marin have been processed in a centralized manner. Therefore, in the city of East Friesland, no one can smell the feces everywhere in other cities, and the environment does not know how much better.

In fact, people in other countries don't know the role of feces, and they think that Marin personally loves cleanliness, or has a cleansing habit. Therefore, outside, Marin's concentrated cleaning of feces was also mocked by many princes ~ www.novelhall.com ~ thought he wasted money. After all, mobilizing a large number of workers to transport feces also consumes a lot. At the very least, it takes a lot of food to feed those workers.

However, if they knew the benefits generated by the droppings, they would not think so, but would try to follow suit ...

In addition to road planning and centralized excrement handling and transportation, Marin also formed an environmental protection bureau to select the poor middle-aged and elderly in the city (not too old) and make them environmental sanitation workers to clean the streets. In addition to ordinary garbage, there is a very special kind of garbage on the streets of this era, that is horse dung.

After all, Marin can prohibit people from urinating and defecating everywhere, but they can't stop living and urinating everywhere. In this era, horses and carriages were important means of transportation. Therefore, it is normal for horse dung to appear on the street. This requires sanitation workers to clean up the horse dung in a timely manner. Of course, according to regulations, these horse dung must be sent to public toilets, not with ordinary garbage. Because these manures are also fertilizer ...

After the revision of the road, the centralized treatment of excrement, and the frequent cleaning of sanitation workers, the city of the Grand Duchy of the North Sea will become the cleanest city in Europe. Coupled with Marin's policy of encouraging business development and preferential treatment of businessmen, it will attract a large number of businessmen to live in Emden, and then, contribute to the economic development and taxation here ...