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.
@Klebert L. Hall: I agree. Once it fails and the homeless and squatters take over, it'll be a nightmare. Then the city will have to waste a bunch of time in court to get permission to demolish it.
It may be "architecture that's quickly realized and doesn't break the bank", but if it's in downtown Dallas, the land it's on certainly will do the bank-breaking all on its own.
Putting a sustainable community downtown is a lot like dropping a fire extinguisher in the middle of a forest fire.
Okay, this looks, at first glance, like the remains of a once great city that is now being taken over by the surrounding vegetation. I definitely don't want to live someplace that looks like it's an abandoned factory.
@TotalFanGirl: One might say that's a feature, not a flaw: it's definitely an evocative, emotionally substantive space. Of course, this is coming from someone who lives in a (converted) abandoned factory several blocks from where this project is going in, so take with NaCl.
I've posted a few times before, but finally decided to set up an account.
Gurren Lagann has a nice sequence of spiraling cities at the end of the world, starting with the cave of Jeehta Village, where expansion is threatened by horrific beastmen and their giant robots.
Although it isn't strictly an isolated city, FLCL's Mabase is structured to create that sense of isolationism, with some really neat monologues on the yearning to leave.
When you're in a town like this all covered with smoke, you forget that there's a world outside. Nothing amazing happens here. And you get used to that, used to a world where everything is ordinary. Every day we spend here is like a whole lifetime of dying slowly. But now Haruko is here. That's how I know there really is a world outside.
11/26/09
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.
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Putting a sustainable community downtown is a lot like dropping a fire extinguisher in the middle of a forest fire.
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09/16/09
New York from Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within.
New York from Soylent Green
The City of Gold and Lead from the Tripod series.
Rockford Falls from Population 436.
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Gurren Lagann has a nice sequence of spiraling cities at the end of the world, starting with the cave of Jeehta Village, where expansion is threatened by horrific beastmen and their giant robots.
Although it isn't strictly an isolated city, FLCL's Mabase is structured to create that sense of isolationism, with some really neat monologues on the yearning to leave.
Okay, okay, I'm a Gainax fanboy. Sue me.
09/14/09
When you're in a town like this all covered with smoke, you forget that there's a world outside. Nothing amazing happens here. And you get used to that, used to a world where everything is ordinary. Every day we spend here is like a whole lifetime of dying slowly. But now Haruko is here. That's how I know there really is a world outside.