The project capitalizes on excess kinetic energy and rampant speculative investment in a series of ‘boom towns’ to propose a growth engine for a ‘boom corridor’ and ‘energy megaregion’.

The intention of design is to using the oil boom as an engine to produce a perpetual prosperous in a vision from now on to 2060. Fossil fuel energy will run out, and the oil boom bubble will burst someday because people’s over use. However, in the oil industry boom, there are new regions emerge by taking advantage of the energy and economic flourish. To keep the flourish, these regions become new energy megaregion, replace the original states of US, in terms of planning megaregion centers which are connected by intermodal spine in the future. As an oil boomtown, Williston will be one of these megaregion centers. By scaling up the boom through three scales this project capitalizes on the speculation and energy capture as an engine from oil boom town to boom corridor in 2035, and energy megaregion in 2060. Instead of controlling and preventing exploiting oil, the plan is to encourage the oil boom bubble burst to produce a boom corridor and use the energy and resources from the oil boom as the engine to support this process. In this process the proposal is letting energy capture with intermodal spine and estate development work together.