PowerON

What's Arcology? It's all-in-one city in single building.

Few major city in the world are interest to building. Think about it, no more car, you just walk for few minutes to store, school or go to work in same building.

Here is concept that test take place in Aroniza.
Arcosanti : Home

and this...
Victory City: The City of the Future

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Jiro

Several magazines have talked about it - Popular Science, Popular Mechanic, and perhaps Time magazines. I find it very fascinating and it makes sense to build arcology in a congested metro area like Tokyo, LA, NYC, etc. However - we DO have a "floating city" like it..... and it's called CRUISE SHIP!

The Floating City

VamPyroX

This sounds like something out of an episode of Sliders that I saw a while back.

The Sliders came across a huge building that was actually a city of its own. Sadly, they also "own" people who have overdue bills on their accounts.

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in realistic, it's difficult funding. Hopefully someone can figure it out.

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Yeah... instead of just landlords dealing with residents and owners dealing with businesses, it's the whole building dealing with residents. businesses, cleaning, security, etc...

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jenni-m

There is one in planning, in Japan.

electro^plankton: Japan Plans To Build The Tallest Structure Ever

Well, I guess they weren't really going to build it, but it is still a neat idea.

PowerON

Yes, I saw that one on History channel that they show many different concept how they would abel to build. Cost too much. Oooy!

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NEWIDME

I dunno, gives me the heebie geebies. Wouldn't it mean ONE government?

PuyoPiyo

Haven't you heard of Acropolis of Athens? Acro means high and Polis mean city so there you go, Acropolis!



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RedFox

I've built many of those in Simcity 2000. I got to try building enough launch arcologies to see what happens.

Bottesini

From what I understood the Victory City link is from before 2002? So they never did build it? I would like very much to live in that kind of environment.

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No thanks. Think about warfare from terrorists. Another thing is germs. Nothing is perfect solution.

Grummer

fascinating, well, in the times of the coming oil crisis which also brings economic and food crisises, i dont know how they are going to be able to muster up to this when this extra ordinary effort is going to require extraordinary amount of oil to accomplish this - sure Japan might be able to afford it, but while the world wide crisis looms over it would also surelty affect Japan's bubble-economy's stability.....

still I like this idea, beautiul peice of engineering and i can see alot of sense to it, even the earthquakes issues, with this sort of geometry it would likely be engineered iun a way to counter the shockwaves like dispersing it in a certain way. Also i can see how the Orcology concept is sensible to evolve the way we do town-planning, as a way to eradicate the needs for wide-area transport. Like fossil fuel cars would then be prohibitive while the range (to travel) with electric cars is more feasible in the close-distance environment at the same time less polluting for all those living in close proxity. It makes a lot of sense. Hell even if petrol become so restricted they may even pass bills to keep hyralics oil available because of the loing-term planning rationale that i just commented above.

Great stuff, I wish they'd do that in Auckland, New Zealand too becuase we have a piss-poor road planning, while the rising see levels is going to be a real issue - superstructure would solve alot of problems for keeping the economic influx intact (location -wise and so on) but it will bring their own sets of problems......(cost and possible public outcry, unrest even maybe (around the world) civil wars becuase it could mean intensity of conflicts between the rich vesus the poor have increased like tenfold.

overall, its a mixed bag of reaction from me, I still like it becuase I also fear the consequences of this sort of movement too, like someone else said in here, logan's run could will become a reality, its chilling. People's mindsets is changing already NOW, and will continue to 'robotise' the human race...

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Posted by: will at August 30, 2007 2:20 PM

Yeh, lets build! You busy little Japs. Use energy, spend money, f**k the planet, f**k the poor, f**k the sick, lets concrete everything!


Is the you August, the same one from here in AD??

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web730

Yup, I thought just the same. No way! lol