{"id":23418,"date":"2013-02-13T12:15:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T18:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=23418"},"modified":"2013-02-13T12:15:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T18:15:28","slug":"us-student-designs-a-drone-proof-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2013\/02\/us-student-designs-a-drone-proof-city\/","title":{"rendered":"US student designs a Drone-Proof City"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>A law student <span>Asher Kohn, 25<\/span> has come up with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2277618\/A-city-designed-foil-drones-U-S-student-creates-stir-concept-community-built-response-UAVs.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">futuristic design for a city<\/a> to counter and foil drone attacks.\u00a0 It uses the sci-fi type of design on Middle Eastern architecture.\u00a0 It uses a number of ways to confuse the drone sensors and conceal the inhabitants. He is calling it the \u201cShura City\u201d \u2013 after the group \/ clan in Islamic countries.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Architecture against drones is not just a science-fiction scenario but a contemporary imperative.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u2018Such creations are not needed for the John Connors but for the Abdurahman al-Awlakis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2018The successful check against the machines is not a daydream but an inevitability, and the quicker more creative solutions are proposed, the more likely such answers can be disseminated widely and kept from the patent-wielding hands of some offshore-utopian type.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He uses some tricks like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Multi-coloured blocks of glass:<\/strong> \u2018The changing colours make it more difficult for electronic cameras to peer in and make out one person from the next without hints of skin tone or clothing colour,\u2019<\/li>\n<li><strong>Movable mashrabiya:<\/strong> \u201c\u2026a drone trying to peer through a window could get guillotined by a mashrabiya contorting itself into a self-destruct code. Now that\u2019s more like it\u2019<\/li>\n<li><strong>Roof over the city:<\/strong> physical barrier to prevent drones coming too close, but criss-crossed with lines to break up the profile of the buildings below. It would also help to keep the city climate controlled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is this city design useful? Experts like the Forbes\u2019 contributor Michael Peck think no.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018It is much easier and quicker to improve drone aircraft, software and sensors than it is to change a building or a city to fool them,\u2019 writes Mr Peck. \u2018The 1990s Global Hawk was the size of a small passenger jet. Now drones are the size of insects. \u2018If we can\u2019t keep mosquitoes out of our homes, a mosquito-sized drone won\u2019t be any easier to swat.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That makes sense. After all the millions have been spent in trying to counter the drones, the drones can reinvent themselves and crack the town completely!<\/p>\n<p>But Asher Kohn makes a great argument for himself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Mr Kohn makes no claim to have created the be all and end all of drone-proof cities, but says he merely wants to provoke discussion of the implications drones have for how future societies might be structured.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018What this project proposes is a new way to think about space,\u2019 Mr Kohn writes. \u2018Drone warfare proposes that every inch of land is (and all of its inhabitants are) part of the battle space.\u2019 He concludes: \u2018Shura City is about using architecture to create aspace for humanity in an increasingly inhuman sphere.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kohn added to MailOnline: \u2018A few people have told me that hiding from drones is illegal, which I find hilarious, because, wait, we\u2019re expecting people to just be totally on-board with fiery death coming down from the sky without a moment\u2019s notice? \u2018I\u2019m just using the vocabulary of architecture to point out the shortcomings of drone warfare. 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