PLAN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Arcology, Underground City, Greenhouse
2 Jan 2017
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Use technology at its maximum to solve problems, by 1960s and 1970s technology is far more advanced than in the 1920s and 1930s. Galloping demography of the time: reduce the impact of humans on the earth by reducing their footprint, building cities vertically rather than horizontally. Have all activities of a city in one large building. Megastructure movement: recreate cities around corridors, can carry out all activities while. Energy efficient and low-cost house: dymaxion house. Utopia or oblivion: the prospects of humanity (1969) Ph. d. in architecture from the university of turin. Complexification and miniaturization of the city: 2% of land normally needed for a given. Settles in scottsdale arizona in 1956 (cid:862)arcology(cid:863): architecture and ecology population. Arcosanti: experimental community 100 km north of phoenix az. Large compact structure and large-scale solar greenhouse will occupy 25 acres of a 4060-acre land preserve. Montr al in the 1960s seen as a model of cities to come.
