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Chargement... Arcology: The City in the Image of Man (1969)par Paolo Soleri
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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). Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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It starts with some dense discussion on what a city on earth will need to become, his titular arcologies, which are cities in the image of man. By this, Soleri goes into the need for compact self-contained cities. But, while I don't always agree with his conclusions (although see his point for why they are necessary), some of his thoughts in-passing were really amazing. As just one example, when he talks about how humanity/evolution is becoming ever more improbably and so cannot apply usual statistical methods (he says it much nicer than that), has still stuck with me.
Ironically, the actual images, while really nice, were not the best part. I had a hard time following his architectural cut-away style and, while I'm sure a lot of thought went into it, it was hard for me to see what he was intending.
Either way, a fun book to read (it's huge!) and an interesting thing to think about ( )