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Kevin DeVico's post on the water-scraper mentioned the notion of Arcology. http://www.urgentevoke.com/photo/waterskyscraper-1?xg_source=activity
Having visited Paolo Soleri's Arcosanti project in the Arizona high desert, Kevin's post got me thinking about old Paolo. At 91 years of age, Soleri is still attempting to deal with the world on his own terms. Paolo has met with Chinese civil engineers many times in the past years regarding mag-lev centered townships that opt away from suburban sprawl-driven automobile-dependence.
February 29th 2010 marked the completion of Soleri's latest exhibit at Tienamen Square in Beijing. It was titled "3D City: Future China".
If the Dubai skyline could transform in a matter of a decade beyond imagination, certainly an urban Arcology can be attempted. As is said, necessity is the mother of invention. Soleri's work is aesthetically beautiful, to my eye, and remains a solution to human desires for immersion in nature while cultivating the virtues of complexification.
http://monsoonzine.com/?p=2200
If anyone knows where to find a video or more in-depth portrayal of the Beijing exhibit, please post.
peace // cameron
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Comment by Brian Ballsun-Stanton on March 18, 2010 at 2:08am
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Careful with Dubai analogies. Much of the literature that the Dubai building was very field of dreams style... with little real uptake.
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Comment by cameron michael keys on March 18, 2010 at 7:22am
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I take a perhaps naive, perhaps not parody-style take on Dubai: if you consider the village-network collective action power of this (perhaps strawman construction) cultural worldview, it's as if the message went around, "Allah wants a city!" and some wealthy people said "If Allah wants to build a city, Allah builds a city!" And boom! To defend myself from obvious strawman and stereotype-use allegations, I'll just say that perhaps when Allah builds a city it is empirically equivalent to many other explanations. If you build it, they will come....hmm...
I would also point out here what Roberto Mangabeira Unger says about capitalism and democracy. He says with capitalism and democracy churning and churning, the secret power of PROPHECY is once again the central driving force of history. So it's field of dreams, and it's like the prophetic voices of business people in an economic religious order. The drawback of listening to these prophets I think is succinctly described by the writer of the Book of Lamentations, chapter 2 verse 14: "Your own prophets have visioned for you worthless and unsatisfying things, And they have not uncovered your error in order to turn back your captivity,
But they kept visioning for you worthless and misleading pronouncements."
That's Dubai, for me. Worthless and unsatisfying things based upon a fundamental error that keeps the world in captivity. peace!!!! // cameron
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