This is one of those very wild ideas that hopefully can get your mind moving in interesting directions. What if LL had only boat canals and walkways? Or perhaps, road bridges coming in from Croatia and Serbia that ended in a large parking lot on LL, and that was the only place for cars on LL, to get around on LL you could only walk or boat…? Would this guarantee LL a tourism income forever?
My absolute favorite place in Thailand is “car-free”
Mackinac Island Michigan only allows horse-drawn carriages
Fire Island New York has a few roads that go east-west, but most of the north-south lanes are walkways
That’s what I was originally thinking, but now I realize that would cut off LL from having hardly any industry, It seems LL must have at least roads through the industrial areas to move materials in and out. Maybe the areas by the Danube could still work with only footpaths or with a combination footpaths and roads, like Fire Island, NY.
I screwed up the links on the original post, here is Fire Island:
I have been to Venice this year. There is an industry and they had/have a special way of building and extending on water. Research it please. Also, check photos on the web of Venice. Those (high) buildings and structures were erected on platforms which are on water. They kept failing and learning. Finally, they‘ve got building procedures which are very solid.
Yeah that’s definitely worth looking into. I’ve been to Venice, but I wasn’t into studying how societies worked at the time.
There is a special feeling of calm that permeates in these car-free places. You can never really let your guard down when cars are around, at any point you can have a brief lapse in judgement and get hit by a car, and with kids it is terrifying. Amsterdam is really bad for this feeling as it seems there is always a car, bus or train heading in every direction.
I just had a secondary idea as to why LL should pursue the canals, and it could go two different ways.
Route 1: The earth from digging canals can be used to raise the land areas which will host buildings and then the buildings could be above the high-water-line.
Route 2: The earth from digging canals can be used to line the canals and also the perimeter of LL with an earth-berm to protect all of LL from high water.
Probably the best is to combine 1 and 2 and construct all buildings, either on stilts, or on raised plots of land, and then also have berms around everything to protect all the land areas.
Here are some examples of an earth-berm protecting from flooding:
Interesting idea Murf your idea makes me think of a Venice meets New Orleans in terms of how New Orleans uses the berm/levee system combined with Venice’s water canals. It is a good mix and since Liberland doesn’t have to worry about hurricanes or coastal storm surge flooding like Venice it should be very practical. I would like to know if a study on the “100 year flood event” has ever been conducted on Liberland since all property insurance companies require this as a condition for coverage and these floodplain maps usually cover a given area say a city or a neighborhood.
