But his plan for a 5,000-person, eco-friendly city lives on Paolo Soleri, the futuristic, eco-conscious architect, died yesterday at 93. He is best known among the masses (and in the scientific community, to some extent) for his planned city of Arcosanti, a sort of Xanadu for the eco-conscious set. When it broke ground in 1970, Soleri saw the proposed 5,000-person city-complex north of Phoenix as a place where cars would be unnecessary and resources used only minimally. It's compact and, since i...
But his plan for a 5,000-person, eco-friendly city lives on Paolo Soleri, the futuristic, eco-conscious architect, died yesterday at 93. He is best known among the masses (and in the scientific community, to some extent) for his planned city of Arcosanti, a sort of Xanadu for the eco-conscious set. When it broke ground in 1970, Soleri saw the proposed 5,000-person city-complex north of Phoenix as a place where cars would be unnecessary and resources used only minimally. It's compact and, since i...
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