Pronounced BABY-LAWN, this area on the outer edges of Blendini City is not an actual neighborhood but a place where baby buildings are raised by mama buildings and human caretakers.

The purpose of Babylon is to test new building concepts that might be vulnerable to the elements if placed in the city. 

There is no access granted to anyone except for the workers and the baby buildings themselves, as they need to be raised here without external disruptions before they move to different parts of the main city. The mama buildings raise the babies through underground root networks (like trees) and the caretakers provide supplemental care. Not all of the buildings make their initial few years.

Some are built with errors, although buildings that live in Babylon have a better chance of surviving.

It’s difficult to access Babylon, which is by design. Eventually, the concept buildings that are raised in Babylon are moved to different locations around the city. 

Currently, the Blendini City government has an arrangement with the Mama buildings to subsidize half the cost of Babylon. As the Mayor, I feel that subsidy should eventually be decreased with private funds being the main driver, but only when we can find another way to fund Babylon. 

The Babylon concept wasn’t my idea, but I think it’s worked reasonably well for testing out new building concepts. The mama buildings have done an amazing job, as have the caretakers. The problem has been funding this as an ongoing project. We’ve had some revolutionary new buildings live in the city once they’ve been raised in Babylon. We’ll see how they keep doing in the long-term, but that’s the thing right? We need to look at this as a long-term investment in improving the durability of our buildings and that’s how we can keep funding this in the long-term.

Mason Carter, The Mayor of Blendini City