I have created a mindmap (using NovaMind) showing a few of the concepts involved in designing an arcology. Let me know if you would like the source file. ...
I recall that one of the stated ideals of Arcosanti is the exercise of frugality in all of 'our' pursuits. Is the desire to buy a condo or cohousing a...
As much as it pains me, I don't think that a piecemeal redevelopment is the way to show the world the power of arcology. Maybe in the future, depending on...
The full moon-sunset last night at Coal Oil Point in Santa Barbara was a reminder that there is a dimension to arcology that goes beyond social theory or...
Does anyone know if anyone has used an apse as a design element in a non-church, non-bandshell structure. Would anyone care to comment how one might do...
I live with my parents in McLean Virginia. Here and everywhere within 50 miles of Washington DC, there is hardly an acre that is not either a national park, or...
To Andrius Kulikauskas, email: ms@.... skypename minciusodas http://www.ms.lt/en/andrius/andriuskulikauskascv.html currently San Diego, CA Dear Andrius, ...
Here it is another year and all we have to report is the rare sighting in the press of our fearless leaders? Rome wasn't built in a day, to be sure, but it WAS...
FYI...thought this might be of relevance to us here. Jeff ... Subject: Re: [SustainableTucson] (Fwd) Good news! Bay Area Seeks To De-Globalize and Re-Localize...
A friend is doing a paper on the relative energy use, pollution, and general sustainability of an urban lifestyle vs suburban or rural ones. I've provided her...
AS THE AMERICAN PUBLIC CONTINUES sleepwalking into a future of energy scarcity, climate change, and geopolitical turmoil, we have also continued dreaming. Our...
Urban arcology? If this is not it, it is getting close. - Randy Wade http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/16/arts/design/16rem.html? _r=1&ref=design&oref=slogin...
Urban Inspiration - Path to Freedom My position is humans have already expropriated and paved-over too much of "nature", and we need to learn how to live...
An online lecture by Robert Bussard describing electrostatic fusion. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606 Energy/Matter Conversion...
Friends of Nature, If you are anything like us you too have been having a difficult time living happily in a culture which is geared towards maintaining the ...
I have been thinking. THere is far to much pessimism about the modern world and not nearly enough discussion of arcology as a more positive rather than less...
Hello: We have just joined this mailing list and would like to ask for your assistance with a project about which we are passionate. We hope and believe that...
Hey everyone, I am a newly registered user of this group and wanted to let you all know a little bit about myself. I am an alumni of Arcosanti, I lived there...
What needs to Happen. We now need to begin making some new choices about where we are really going with this whole new thing we have called living life like it...
Dear fellow Arconauts, It's been a while since I posted here. First let me update you all a bit on my work by first briefly going a bit into the history of ...
Hey everyone, I don't know if it is rude to start a topic like this but I wanted to (re) introduce myself to the group. A few years back I was a member of this...
Anybody know Dr. Siamak G. Shahneshin ??? please excuse the crosspost.. Lou Dallara Dear Mr. Louis Dallara, recently, i've noticed during a lecture i did...
Hey everyone, I don't know if it is rude to start a topic like this but I wanted to (re) introduce myself to the group. A few years back I was a member of this...
resending from another email address. ... resending from another email address. Begin forwarded message: From: Chris ScottHanson < cscotthanson@... > Date:...
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It seems to me that the main problem with an ambitious concept like an arcology is that ambitious projects like this tend to fail due to lack of funding. This...
I am new to this group. I just found a link that might be of interest. It is about a high density development in China that seems to adopt some of the concepts...
