Main entry:

Soleri, Paolo, 1919-2013, author.

Title & Author:

Arcology : the city in the image of man / Paolo Soleri.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, [1969]
©1969

Description:

122 pages : illustrations, plans ; 37 x 63 cm

Notes:
Part One: The Concept of Arcology -- Utopia -- The Map of Despair -- Miniaturization -- Equity and Congruence -- The Condition of Man -- Yesterday's City and Today's Reality -- Structure and Performance -- Life Is in the (Qualified) Thick of Things -- The Bulb of Reality -- Priority Chart -- The Organism of a Thousand Minds -- Arcology: The City in the Image of Man -- The Characteristics of Arcology -- The Wastes -- Man on Earth -- Residual Anguish -- Leisure -- Procedures -- Arcology for the Individual -- Nature / Neonature / Man -- Science and Human Environment -- Free Enterprise and Aesthetogenesis -- Summary -- Part Two: Thirty Arcologies -- Novanoah I -- Novanoah II -- Noahbabel -- Babelnoah -- Arcoforte -- Babel IIA -- Arcvillage I -- Logology -- Babel IIB -- Babel IIC -- Arcanyon -- Babel IID -- Babel Canyon -- Arcvillage II -- Arckibuz -- Arcollective -- Veladiga -- Arcodiga -- Theodiga -- Babeldiga -- Stonebow -- Arcbeam -- Infrababel -- Arcoindian I -- Arcoindian II -- Theology -- Arcube -- Hexahedron -- Asteromo -- Arcosanti.

Summary:

An arcology is distinguished from a merely large building in that it is designed to lessen the impact of human habitation on any given ecosystem. It could be self-sustainable, employing all or most of its own available resources for a comfortable life: power; climate control; food production; air and water conservation and purification; sewage treatment; etc. An arcology is designed to make it possible to supply those items for a large population. An arcology would supply and maintain its own municipal or urban infrastructures in order to operate and connect with other urban environments apart from its own. Arcology was proposed to reduce human impact on natural resources. Arcology designs might apply conventional building and civil engineering techniques in very large, but practical projects in order to achieve pedestrian economies of scale that have proven, post-automobile, to be difficult to achieve in other ways. Soleri describes ways of compacting city structures in three dimensions to combat two-dimensional urban sprawl, to economize on transportation and other energy uses. Like Wright, Soleri proposed changes in transportation, agriculture, and commerce. Soleri explored reductions in resource consumption and duplication, land reclamation; he also proposed to eliminate most private transportation. He advocated for greater "frugality" and favored greater use of shared social resources, including public transit (and public libraries).

ISBN:

0262190605
9780262190602

Subject:

City planning.
Megastructures.
City Planning
Urbanisme.
Villes totales.
urban planning.
Planung
Stadt
Stadtplanung
Zukunft

Host item:

Engineering Societies Library Collection (Library of Congress)

Added entries:

City in the image of man

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