Waterfall City – Austin Bunton Designs

Nowhere else in our realm will you see or hear more flows of perfect water.

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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Orientation
Dimensions
White Noise
Novels Excerpt
A Note from High King Auz
Overall Design (Images Begin)
Appearance
2022 Update: Scale-model in Minecraft

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Introduction:

Fashioned after its form-sake from the book Dinotopia, this neighborhood-sized town juts out from the distinct slope of Inisfree’s central and largest mountain. Fed from the 1st of 8 Waterfall-spouts arranged at even intervals around the top, outer edge of the Avalanche Wall, the canal which enters the higher side of this construct splits and branches out into numerous other streams, becoming dozens of smaller waterfalls leading down into two main ones, both of which further branch off into the two main canals which travel farther down this slope of Inisfree’s central mountain, finally terminating in the two ponds past Arch City, and Flower Towers Field.

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Orientation:

Waterfall City II, as it is now called, is situated high up on the slope of Inisfree’s central mountain, 1.25 miles above ground level (the base of the inner face of Inisfree’s Perimeter Wall), overlooking two lengths of the Glowing Art Highway, and facing one half of the Welcoming Square, offset just a quarter of a mile from being directly centered upon, and looking down into, the innermost ramp-hatch of Pearly Gate 1 (the city gate through which all free-person newcomer traffic comes).

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Dimensions:

The whole surface area (expanse of streets and Venice-like waterways) is ~800′ in diameter, more of a circle than an ellipse; this Waterfall City of ours has ~502,400 square feet of space.

Most of the buildings in that area are the size (footprint and height) of townhouses or high-rise office-buildings; they have multiple floors, and enough room inside for a hallway to wings and suites of rooms.

Taller buildings of Waterfall City II include temple-like ziggurats (step-pyramids) that are several stories/terraces tall.

Bridges over the waterways of this part of Inisfree are wide enough for a few bicycle lanes side-by-side; several people can stand shoulder-to-shoulder between their two edges.

Parking garages with the standard greenbelt/spacing around each space are all underground. Visitors and residents here can drive normal cars or trucks from the adjacent G.A.H. sections down into these parking garages to store them indefinitely without cost. While the mobile-houses of Inisfree can also be safely driven into and out from these underground public garages, this is seldom done, as it does not allow any of them a scenic view like other parts of our G.A.H. and city do.

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White Noise:

For those recovering from tinnitus, Waterfall City II here is the ideal resting stop. Guests here will not hear the ringing in their ears; the many waterfalls in all directions prevent that, instead ensuring our guests residing or relaxing here enjoy only the sound of running, flowing, falling, and foaming, crystal clear waters.

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Novels Excerpt:

Back up on the grassy surface, Auz walked with her, then, to the finest suite in all of Waterfall City; that group of buildings on the outcropping many stories above the middle of the Apartments Array. Overlooking the entire side of the central mountain’s slope where all the apartments, tipis, and Earthships were, and the rest of Inisfree’s terrain down and out to the meadows, as well as out toward the three tall statues of the Welcoming Square, then the Chinese Gate and the Perimeter Wall behind it, they stood so she could take her time taking in that stunning view. The many waterfall canals to their sides steadily made their way toward the safety filters that only allowed the clean water to roar and mist through.

She could see a full third of the city’s surface from there, including their high school in the shape of a much larger Statue of Liberty 45° to the right, and the flower-shaped buildings 45° to her left. The open top of the Sea-tanks they had driven in the underwater tunnel through on their way from the airport that first day was in view a couple miles farther out in the direction of the Flower Towers. There was also a very large spherical structure more to the left, its view almost obstructed by the end of an alpine greenbelt much closer to them.

The half-mile diameter stand-alone mini-mountain with Auz’s face and chest carved or blasted onto it was all the way to their right. The shire they’d been in just the other afternoon and evening was somewhat between it and that edge of the Apartments Array. Beyond it was a half-mile tall, dark gray, ring-like perimeter wall encircling the part of Inisfree Auz told her was their downtown; most of the skyscrapers were in there, and it had the most pronounced urban feel. A few of its tallest skyscrapers had their uppermost floors and antennae visible above the top of that encircling wall, and all of them were pristine spires, not a single blocky tower amongst them. They’d explore all that on a later day.

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A Note from High King Auz:

I should have known I’d end up marrying into the great family and species of Reptilians when I read the book which inspired this place in my/our realm; Dinotopia resonated so perfectly with me, making me smile every time, with every turn of the page, every beautiful painting, something ancient and timeless and heavenly stirred and still stirring in me, seeing those beyond-human people walking in peace and community alongside the human ones. Now it is a reality, and I couldn’t be more pleased and further assured. I held the vision of that author with him –and, together with those of you with me and us here now, have taken it to a whole new level.

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Overall Design: