Sentences with phrase «with arcologies»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

For one thing, an arcology would largely do away with environmental danger, because it would use only a fraction of the space, energy and resources required for building or maintaining our present cities.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The old school Gauntlet-esque cooperative challenge, teamed up with the candy - colored graphics, make for a fun romp through the arcology.

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.

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.»