Why read Arcology?

Book cover of Arcology: The City in the Image of Man

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This edition contains all the text and illustrations found in the giant Arcology, photographically reduced somewhat to allow a lower price and enhanced handleability.

"In the three-dimensional city, man defines a human ecology. In it he is a country dweller and metropolitan man in one. By it the inner…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Arcology as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Anthony Weston

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Architect-philosopher Paolo Soleri writes in an oracular style introducing his way-outsized book of designs for hyper-dense, concrete-megastructure cities in the deserts or oceans or even in space, none actually realized except for a very small prototype called “Arcosanti” in the high plateaus north of Phoenix, a campus that could have been built in a summer by a middle-sized reinforced-concrete contractor but in fact has been slowly erected by trainee-volunteers and a diehard community of followers over the last half-century. But there is something to it. “Tightly-woven minimalist packages will become mandatory.” I recommend the tabloid-sized original edition: it fits the…

From Anthony's list on The best ecotopian adventures (and misadventures).