Sentences with word «arcology»

Paul Shepard once took a very different tack, proposing, somewhat playfully, that in the United States the entire population be moved to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, housed in arcologies, and fed by high tech means from algae.

Obviously the economic system that would fit in with arcologies and the primacy of farming would be quite different from the one that has dominated most of the world in recent times.

However, the goal in an ecological civilization would be to make arcologies together with the nearby countryside as self - sufficient as is practical.

Again, I hope it is clear that I do not believe that living in one of Soleri's arcologies without a car would make me poorer in any way that counts in comparison with living in a suburb and commuting into Los Angeles.

But in the construction of the larger arcologies there would be need for moving side walks, escalators, and elevators.

Such communities, and even very large ones, could be constructed as architectural ecologies or arcologies whose energy requirements are met by the sun, along the lines proposed by Paolo Soleri.

There would be less tendency for family members to disperse to distant arcologies, so that the need to travel for family reasons would also be reduced.

However reduced, there should and would be continuing exchange of goods between arcologies.

In the alternate time - line (post Crono interference), it was transformed into a flying arcology, a temple infused with the near - infinite power of Lavos by using the Mammon Machine.

Neonchrome is a top - down cyberpunk shooter set inside a massive arcology where the player will face off against countless minions controlled by the mad Overseer.

Also, to survive a total sun blackout for years, we'd better have complete arcologies prepared containing most earthlife, to reseed the planet when the sun goes back on - line.

Paolo Soleri has conceived of an alternative form of urban life in which the architectural ecology — arcology for short — would promote both justice and the environment.

Arcologies together with their surrounding countryside would provide markets of sufficient size for there to be sufficient competition in many fields.

Plugged into EA's Origin network, the game supports asynchronous play from up to 16 mayors in a region at any one time, and they're encouraged to work alongside each other to construct Great Works — things such as arcologies or international airports.

And a visionary architect in Arizona was projecting architectural ecologies (or «arcologies») which could use the earth's resources more frugally while providing a more humane context for urban life.

Certainly the quality of community in an arcology is likely to be superior to that in most suburbs.

And to make that power manifest he proposes a radically new kind of city, an architectural ecology or «arcology.»

But will not the human being's unlimited capacity for perverting potential good into active evil introduce into the arcologies all the problems that we face today?

There is still no immediate prospect of the Chinese building an arcology, but they have an exhibit of his work currently in Beijing and the group coming to our conference on ecological civilization plans to visit Arcosanti.

His arcologies would be a major step toward reduced use of fuels and the self - sufficiency of cities.

Suppose instead that our workers lived in an arcology and had no need of cars.

Within the arcology distances would be such that elevators, escalators and moving sidewalks would combine with walking to make all the city's facilities available to all.

His arcologies would also take care of heating and cooling without the use of fossil fuels.

The latter brings me to the arcologies of Paolo Soleri.

This shift is already realistically proposed in Soleri's arcologies.

Within the arcologies, there will be elevators and escalators and moving walks as well as walking and biking paths.

The goal of an arcology, like that of ecological agriculture, would be to meet all its needs with passive solar energy.

At the base of these arcologies will be the industries that support them.

Most businesses would operate in only one arcology.

Remove the streets altogether and fill that space with buildings, or rather incorporate it, along with the existing buildings into a single architectural ecology or arcology.

Soleri believes that if sufficient energy can be gathered for the industries at the base of the arcologies, the waste heat from these industries can meet the other needs for energy.

He calls them architectural ecologies, or arcologies.

I know, of course, and I suppose that Soleri knows, that his arcologies may not work.

The arcologies that he proposes are beautiful to behold, brilliant in design, and, best of all, technologically and economically possible.

Players will be have to battle their way through a «megastructure,» called an «arcology,» in order to bring down the Overseer and stick it to the digital man.

Ever since I started this arcology, the game can't seem to keep it straight about whether I sent enough alloy to my arcology.