Sentences with phrase «in arcologies»

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.

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

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

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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.

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.

The problem is to find the resources for one substantial arcology in the face of the overwhelming sense of its strangeness, of its not belonging to the familiar world now decaying all around us.

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.

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.

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

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

Most businesses would operate in only one arcology.

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.

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.

The story revolves around a rebellion against Neon Corp who house anywhere from hundreds of thousands through to a million people in giant megastructures known as arcologies.

If anyone is deemed untrustworthy then they will be detained against their own will and with the lead character being found in this position within one of the largest arcologies on Earth called Neon Chrome; the only way to overcome the predicament is to take down the Overseer and the countless enemies that guard him.

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.

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.

His desert headquarters has now been a pilgrimage site for generations of countercultural - leaning architects, and his signature philosophy of «arcology» — which fused architecture with ecology in an effort to secure an environmentally sustainable future for humankind — could hardly seem more prescient.

In fact, Graff has designed a vertical farm project that is an arcology, or a» a web of symbiotic resource flow relationships that enable the building to operate with a self - sufficiency similar to that of ecological systems.»

Architect Paolo Soleri's extensive work with the arcology concept in the latter half of the 20th century largely sidestepped this issue, owing to the lack of a technological means to apply urban self - containment to agriculture.