Victory City

Get your freedom fries at Victory City.

The brainchild of Orville Simpson II, of Cincinnati, a Victory City is a self-contained, privately run city of the future.

Simpson envisions hundreds of these being built worldwide, giving like-minded people the opportunity to congregate amongst themselves, in relative self-sufficiency.

Accommodating up to 332,000 people, a Victory City would rely on surrounding farmland for most of its food needs, supplemented by greenhouses, fish tanks and "poultry centers" close to the cafeteria areas. The city itself, under one roof, would take up about 3 square miles.

Some buildings would be up to 102-stories tall.

Simpson has put some thought into this: The Main Elevator Building would be divided into 9 sections. The upper 8 sections would be served by elevators, which would travel "express" to their particular sky-lobbies, carrying up to 50 people each. When people get off at their sky lobby, they would get on standard-sized elevators, which would take them express to their particular floor. The platforms ... would hold 50 people. When the elevator door opens, one platform carrying 50 people who want to go up would roll into the elevator, while at the same time, another platform carrying 50 people who just came down would roll out the door on the opposite side.

On the surface, it sounds utopian enough. It also sounds like a perfect setting for a sci-fi movie with a storyline gone wrong.

Still, the domain of the future belongs to dreamers. If it can be dreamed up, eventually it can be built. And as any movie watcher knows ... if you build it, they will come.