NP Stalker

[David Morris]

I didn't mention Arcosanti on purpose.  In my opinion it is a long
ago discredited dream, and for many years now Arcosanti has been a
money-making pseudo cause/scam.  Its premise is over. Think of living in a
mega-condo where you have almost no freedom to express any individual
expression.  You must try to fit into an ideal concept of citizenship.
Think of the movie Brasil.  Ideal cities require ideal rulers and ideal
citizens that will never exist.

David Morris

On Friday, May 6, 2016, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Similar to arcologies, which have been pretty common in
> science-fiction. The dream aint over! This (2011) piece presents five
> real-world arcologies that were at least then under construction:
>
> http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-06/21/paolo-soleri-arcologies/viewall
>
> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 12:00 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > This city is Jane Jacobs' antitihesis.
> >
> > Back in the late 60's Archizoom, and others, dreamed (in jest) of cities
> > comprised of single mega-structures, modern ideal cities (cartoon
> extensions
> > of modernism - commentary - early post-modernism).  Like Corbusier's
> Radiant
> > City (the Master's model), they were elevated above the ground, with
> endless
> > greenspace beneath them, connected by elevated super highways. They would
> > have been instant dystopias of authoritarianism.  But. back then, they
> > looked so clean, so modern.  Pruitt-Igoe was its reality.
> >
> > Le Corbusier:
> > http://waskogm.deviantart.com/art/Radiant-City-321567851
> > http://www.slideshare.net/ctlachu/le-corbusiers-planning-concepts
> >
> > Archizoom:
> > http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/no-stop-city/
> > http://www.unit607.com/no-stop-city/
> >
> > David Morris
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:08 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Christ, the description of the city alone will bring your whole day
> down.
> >>
> >> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> http://www.amusingplanet.com/2014/06/the-depressing-industrial-city-of.html
> >> >
> >> > Scroll down for the photos.....there's something perverse about the
> >> > color
> >> > schemes....
> >> >
> >> > love,
> >> > cfa
> >> >
> >> >
> >> -
> >> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >
> >
>
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