skycity
Skycity is a term used in urban design and speculative fiction to describe a high-density, vertically integrated city that concentrates housing, employment, and services within a compact, multi-layered footprint. In many depictions the city rises as a cluster of towers and platforms linked by skybridges and elevated transit. The concept emphasizes reducing land use, shortening travel distances, and enabling efficient, adaptable infrastructure through modular construction, intelligent systems, and sustainable energy networks.
In such designs, daily life blends living, working, and recreation across stacked neighborhoods and suspended promenades.
Skycity also appears in real-world contexts as a reference in architectural and urban planning discussions. A
Related concepts include the vertical city, megatall skyscrapers, and sustainable urbanism, which explore high-density living, multi-layer