July 18, 2003
Asteromo - Space Arcology
I doubt I'll get the chance in my lifetime, but I would love to live in a Space Arcology
"Asteromo is an asteroid for a population of about 70,000 people.
It is basically a double-skinned cylinder kept inflated by pressurization
and rotation of the main axis . . . the weight of a person will vary from
zero at the axis to a fraction of his earthly weight on the ground.
He will be able to fly without the need of any power devices.
There will be Dantesque promenades at different levels of physical prowess --
from weak (center) to strong (periphery). . . .
Man, standing head toward the axis of rotation, will be enveloped in a solid ecology."
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Posted by: Get The Real Scoop at May 21, 2004 1:17:42 AM
Rewriting the system: What the world needs now.
Insprired by: Imagine - John Lenon.
Created By: Me, 19yr's old, facts and opinions gathered by many within several year span. Opinions mainly by the young generations.
Here it is:
First off, if your going to construct something worth-while, do it right!: An efficient sized arcology would hold 300 000 - 500 000 individuals. Each arcology can be located "near" eachother so the environment can be further a focus. At this capacity, I've designed a structure 1050x1050 sq ft. (appox, 1/3 of a km) At 155 levels @ 9ft per level not including flooring and supports. (approx, 1 million sq. ft living space per full level) , industry, Commercial and city neccessities will be contained within. The need for transportation, waste and response times will be a phase of the past. The environment Will be a devotion of the present and future.
Profit will not be the focus of everyone, however, beniffiting humanity. Do not comment yet on the costs and realities of such a structure of this size. A book has been written on it. If you would like to see, simply reply. This is not a book for sale. It is for everyone and anyone free of charge. It should make people think twice when they distrbute their products for profits. MOST PRODUCTS OUT ON THE MARKETS ARE WASTEFULL IN SOME FORM AND INSIGNIFICANT TO THE PROGRESSION OF HUMANITY.
So, here's something that's free and interesting....
Now that this has been stated. Here is a summarization of this book. Keep in mind, there is lots within this summarization that will not answer your questions and concerns, so please read the book before complaining and/or sending opinions. Email me for book or check website.
• UP SOON: www.geocities.com/solutionssystem/
• For the mean while, send opinions:
orangehydro@hotmail.com or... http://www.peagreenboat.com/arcology/disc7_toc.htm#00000051
Book / Website
Title: Dividends, Waste Forms, expansions, gaps and barriers of present societies
Secondary Topics: Present human nature and individual wants.
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The majority of citizens of democratic societies, even some individuals in government have realized for some time now, funding used for government strategies have displayed continuous, problematic methods of bandaging the local & global issues at hand. Maintaining and striving to improve necessities within our societies are complicated challenges, mainly because there is never enough "money" for every new strategy. These strategies follow the present facilities. Never was there a thought in governments’ minds, of constructing an extremely expensive structure, which can hold all of a large city's necessities, its citizens and extras. Also enabling true democracy within. Yes, asking to build these structures may cost a large chunk of the city's budget, definitely around 1 billion dollars +. This does not mean it's pointless... In fact this structure is far from insignificant! As explained in my book / website, this structure along with a solid system (By the public and for the public) will save billions more than the cost of the building, for the long-run. More-over it will save Mega-tons of waste produced annually, conserve useful energy and furthermore reduce the garbage disposing by a "noticeable" percentage. (Unlike any measures presently seen) ex: Recycling, which causes waste under processing.
HealthCare, the need for insurance(s), food for the local food banks, aiding famine in 3rd world countries, money for roads and infrastructure are only some of the many examples of wasteful bandages. "It is only wasteful because of the strategies and decisions acted upon by the one governing." "Prevention" should be governments #1 focus.
Many premiers of provinces quoted recently "Money can only supply bandages to the problems, long-term solutions are needed". This statement proves, our governments are unsure, still, on what are the best strategies for long-term assurance, and afterwards, improvements.
"Asking the hierarchy for more funding" and "statements of modifications to strategies" are currently all governments only tools. Technology progression is always rising, however not fast enough. Many factories which produce emissions are vastly selling their products so the public may one day use. In the process from the industry to anyone, large amounts of waste is caused.
Everything imaginable is becoming marketed and in many cases the new successful business, becomes the heavy waste emitters. To keep it simple, "profit" is the lead cause of the slow progression of technology. Computers and cars are fine example. Computers and vehicles both mass distribute as various companies compete by improving aspects in their business and becoming unique from the rest. In other words, why don't companies make there updated products substantially improved from the previous? Like the Pentium 1 from the Pentium 2, like placing catalyc converters to reduce toxic emissions when not realizing safe hydrogen would save long term, Buying premium gas instead of regular gas when most vehicles on the road don't even require it."Supper" is higher-octane, so its not going to make much difference on the toxicity of the emissions.
Due to improper materials because of costs and/or out-dated equipment, work conditions or conservation of industry funds is leading the world under a barrel. Oil operations and large profits by them is one example of unacceptable actions all over profit. If a new system could change human nature without shock, to work for bettering humanity rather than working to survive and have luxuries afterwards
positive innovations would obviously happen. Instead what companies and governments have left us, is to waste to survive and purchase extras to reward yourself for it... "Waste" is the top preferred topic of the agenda for many governors. Their strategies do not benefit humanity long-term, they'll fix the problems temporarily and leave the burdens for later. This structure has many "long-term fixes"
Yes, in technology, scientists are persistently innovating new breakthroughs. examples: Fast tumour removement with an advanced gun, giving almost anyone the power to operate it, breast cancer solution, using minor radiation, so side-effects have minimal chance of occurring.
Technological breakthroughs could occur much quicker in a new system. You must read the book to fully understand this last statement and how the whole system works. Aspects of this system and structure may be changed by "widely agreed" decisions.
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END OF BOOK COVER
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Long-term Treatment and Outcomes
The possible paths to a positive future, predicted now. Some examples of what’s in the book.
1. Healthcare technology, response times & "increased equal treatment" Example: Mild sickness to open heart surgery will both be treated vigilantly since there will be a city supporting hospital within this structure. Residents living under this structure who become ill or have any other situations needing treatment will notice fast treatment times, because of the amount of area and the work ethics and conditions explained in this book. For any emergencies (health, police, fire, etc) response times would be vigilant. Slow treatment finally a phase of the past...
2. Homeless decreased: This is because of generous people. Also the very affordable housing makes present society’s financial stresses one less stress. Considering, urban town homes and apartment rent is generally high in the Ottawa area as one of many examples, and rural home development costs are still above what many can afford, another alternative is definitely worth it. Why will homes be cheaper in this structure? Large bulks of building materials will already be bought for flexible distribution, (by funds used for the construction of building) as anything presently bought in bulk through industry, hence the larger the quantity the larger deals able to be made. That's one of the main reasons housing will be cheaper.
3. Riots decreased: This is because further unity can be formed within this structure as voices will be heard and thus problems will decrease.. Crimes will drop, and other Security will heighten. Outer-structural security is one example.
4. Vigilant response times.
5. The "Environment" Thus the improvements or changes of materials used, increased technology and educations:
-> Industries, commercial and residential areas monitored and strictly regulated for waste and emissions. Near outer perimeter also monitored.
-> No spread out buildings, simply one. Landscape devoted to forests and identical structures nearby. "It is not needed nor recommended to divide every structure so far apart." It is simply inefficient for: Wildlife, travelling costs / impacts and response times. Also our "government paid" and our "tax paid" services must spend money depending on locations and new-individuals. (examples: school busing, mailing / parcel delivery, MILITARY)
Wasting is currently the cheapest method for the public of present societies and the most profiting for both the commercial and industry. It may be benefiting for now, however future generations will be faced with the damages and costs, and believe me, the cost to put everybody on another lovable planet similar to earth would be so expensive that the price would not even compare to bill gates bank account. Just think of the costs for a short trip to the "International space station". Imagine a trip a million times farther. We cannot afford to loose this precious, life-giving planet.
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Arcology: Life in the Big City
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by Bob Rudner
Chicago Arcology Network
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Megacities are metropolitan regions of over 10 million, like Tokyo and Mexico City. In comparison, Chicagoland is over 7.5 million, and heading up. Sprawl defines the lay of the land of most big cities, with suburban borders clashing and farmland, forests and wetlands gobbled up by roads, malls, townhouses and corporate entities. With 10 billion people predicted for the year 2050 -- double Earth's current occupancy -- the doubling of the amount of cities and maximizing the use of the land is a critical priority for any sane person pondering the situation.
Of all the subjects raised at the first United Nations-sponsored Habitat conference in Vancouver, Canada, sprawl has received the least attention. Roads, highways, single-family residences, parking lots, commercial and recreational centers have spread people apart. The automobile shapes architecture more than life and people. Our un-recyclable time is dispensed by vehicles which segregate inter-relationships.
Grids made for pre-computer age land designs occupy imaginations over the great potentials humans can create by utilizing telecommunications and computers. Participatory architecture awaits the application of current technology.
Since it is generally accepted that people want a sustainable future, that we desire living things around us and that natural diversity should be conserved, the means to these ends should become a major point of discussion. The highest expression thus far in the visual dialogue of city planning has come from Paolo Soleri, who coined the term "arcology" (shorthand for "architecture for ecology"). In 1970, he published a rich tapestry of his arcologic designs and philosophy called Arcology: City in the Image of Man.
That same year, Soleri founded a school and urban laboratory called Arcosanti, in central Arizona. His writing and dreams attracted thousands of volunteers who by 1976 had built most of the structures now comprising Arcosanti.
Soleri, who studied under Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesen West, was among the lecturers at Habitat I, which included Buckminster Fuller (inventor of the geodesic dome), 24 years his senior. The two were paired up for their structural genius and were admired by Canadian architect Moishe Safdie of Montreal Expo fame.
A lineage can be seen in the ideals of Wright, Fuller, Soleri and Safdie. Each has exhibited designs which stand in contrast to standard operating procedure. Yet all have suffered being pushed to the fringe. All have been marginalized by professionals whose success was defined by their acquiescence to the norm of modern city design where living spaces are segregated by automobile thoroughfares. Soleri, especially, has fought the status quo of auto-centric architecture.big city of the future will revolve around citizens' familiarity with arcology.
The time to start studying this phenomenon is now. Activists taking on each issue in separate terms are like self-basting turkeys stewing in their own juices. From the looks of things, ecologists have suffered so much burn-out that the thermometer is about to pop out. Bucky Fuller used the term "comprehensivism." If people are to comprehend the urban whole, arcology is the way.
Meliorism -- a naive belief that things will get better on their own -- will only make things worse, as pointed out by Richard Levine, founder of the Center for Sustainable Cities (CSC) at the University of Kentucky College of Architecture. Rather than starting off with compromise, Levine asserts his ideas of "sustainable city implantations" by proposing workable designs for proof. In the mile and a half airspace over the Westbanhof Station yard in Vienna, Austria, the CSC, together with the famed Oikodrome, will be experimenting with its parallel concepts of arcology, what Soleri might call a "retrofit arcology."
The implantation operates with three dimensional public space (as opposed to mere ground level access), and will be up to twelve stories high. The concept is also called "city-as-a-hill," in that it functions as a multi-directional megastructure with life flourishing on its surface for aesthetics and urban agriculture.
Like Soleri, Levine raises landscaping to a higher level by covering his structures with life. Within the implantation is a mix of uses working in a geography of pedestrian mobility while outskirting the automobile. Of course, solar gain is anticipated by the site's particular seasonal access to sunlight.
CSC has challenged both academic architecture and the so-called "real estate" industry's perpetual suburban townhouse/mall sprawl. Rather than caving into car commercialism's grid dominance over the shape of the land, CSC uses the sun and nature to nurture its designs. And their CAD methods open up democracy by allowing for participatory architecture centered around the computer's malleable anvil.
The politics of arcology will become easier when CAD games replace violent video games. Construction is the opposite of destruction. Creativity in play and work will be augmented when people are vantaged by Internet. Global design charrettes, working with shared models, can allow people anywhere on the network to examine the potentials of architecture and city planning for sustainability.
It must be the grassroots environmentalists and community activists who provide the yeast for such an adventure. As Frederick Douglass put it, "No power is ceded without demand." With a mass base, arcology will achieve its rightful academic status and its place on the estate will become real. All other architecture is merely like rearranging the deck-chairs on the Titanic.
Big city realities are overwhelmingly violent and depressing. It is unreal to plan on more townhouses, cars, shopping malls, waste dumps and highways, etc. Industry needs to be neighborhood-friendly. Independence is evolving into inter-dependence. The aging population needs accessibility, as demonstrated by the disability rights movement. A convergence is at hand, with growing population and technology, shrinking wildlife refuges and wetlands, the dwindling and contaminating of resources and the widespread realization of these problems.
The beauty of the challenge is that we are not far from the solutions. Indeed, they are at hand if only people would reach for them.
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Posted by: govokinolij at Jul 10, 2007 2:26:46 PM
Rewriting the system: What the world needs now.
Insprired by: Imagine - John Lenon.
Created By: Me (Luc59457), 19yr's old, facts and opinions gathered by many within several year span. Opinions mainly by the young generations.
Wow, I never thought I would see my blog here! Sorry guys, my website got removed a long time ago. If you read the nature of the content then u might understand why. The book is lost also. If you want to see the latest work by "me" you can go to: http://www.youtube.com/luc59457
This is my latest creation, the first Ac electric bicycle!
Posted by: luc59457 at Nov 30, 2007 6:28:15 AM
Also, Arcology projects can be found at: www.arcosanti.org It relates to my work. Which I remember was pulled off Geocities. I remember that exact writing of mine. Amazing to see it years later!
Posted by: Luc59457 at Jan 11, 2009 10:48:03 AM
Wow, all the interesting comments were deleted. I guess whoever did that does not want people to be educated on the matter. For the person moderating this, they would rather the people hear lies, because that is whats most profitable. The moderators selfishness and greed has lead him/them to removing the important facts over Arcologies. The summarization of my book has been destroyed. Thanks to the people who don't care about you and me, and their objectives which are self-centered. To Corrupt humanity. This information is a threat to them, what has happened here in the deleting of the most valuable comments, is in direct relation to there selfishness. I will be hunting these people down and exposing them on another website. This will be my main objective from now on. All the zombies in high places, can keep fighting, but it will only fall on them.
Posted by: Luc59457 at Jan 31, 2009 8:34:06 AM
There is a war between the people who want to help and the selfish powers. Just a reminder to the moderators. You are well outnumbered. Your actions here were completely unjustified, and since what goes around comes around, you will face consequences unless you make up for your "mistakes"
Posted by: Luc59457 at Jan 31, 2009 8:35:58 AM
That is awefull what you have done here
Posted by: Bob at Jan 31, 2009 8:37:05 AM
The moderators e-mail address is even fake
Posted by: joe at Jan 31, 2009 9:03:13 AM
Ok the comments were placed back, strange stuff...
Posted by: joe at Jan 31, 2009 9:05:13 AM
