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Most of these "forward-thinking" government architectural projects wind up being objects of contempt twenty years down the road. A lot of public housing projects were built on similar ideals, for example.
-Kle.
11/27/09
11/26/09
If so, it will only be because nobody actually wants to live in an arcology. It's been decades, and the place is nowhere near "mega". I expect the first one will go up a lot faster. Heck, the Burj Dubai is a better choice for the first arcology.
"The idea of a sprawl-free city seems attractive and smarter for our long-term survival."
How's that, exactly? I'll give you "attractive", but the latter seems hard to support logically.
-Kle.
11/26/09
11/27/09
Sure, compact cities are efficient.
Making the leap to the idea that they improve the likelihood of our long-term survival as a species is fanciful, at best.
-Kle.
11/28/09
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I also strongly doubt that the collapse of civilization=human extinction. Resource crises might cause the former, but they are unlikely to cause the latter.
-Kle.
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11/25/09
Putting a sustainable community downtown is a lot like dropping a fire extinguisher in the middle of a forest fire.
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Edit: Even if you can't access the terraces from the interior they could be made wide enough to allow someone to walk along them. Basically an oversized balcony that runs the full length of each tower.
11/26/09
Now if, as you speculate, these stepped terraces are actually more like window boxes that can be accessed from inside then, this design becomes slightly more practical. I much prefer the idea of having access to a garden balcony but that wouldn't create these dramatic building shapes.
The point of my comment was not to oppose the concept but to point out the lack of consideration for practical gardening requirements.