"It is a microcosm of the planet that will afford us the space to rewild and return almost the entirety of the world to a global-scaled wilderness." The proposal is based entirely on existing technologies "The byproduct of this global park, however, is the necessity to redesign the realities of the present-day planetary city we all occupy," Young said. The idea stems from the Half Earth concept developed by biologist Edward O Wilson, which proposes that mass extinction can be averted by dedicating half of the surface of the earth to nature. "It doesn’t pretend to be an executable proposal." "Planet City is a fiction shaped like a city," he added. Planet City would be built of recycled materials "If we were to reorganise our world at the scale of our densest cities then Planet City could actually occupy as little as 0.02 per cent of the earth, roughly the size of an average US state," he said. "What if we reached a global consensus to retreat from our vast network of cities and entangled supply chains into one hyper-dense metropolis housing the entire population of the earth?" "Planet City is a speculative narrative of what could happen if we were to radically reverse this planetary sprawl," Young told Dezeen. The film was commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria for the NGV Triennial, which opened in Melbourne, Australia last month.
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