With this book Soleri also shapes the term of Arcology.
Arcosanti is an experimental"Arcology prototype"- a demonstration project under construction central Arizona.
Arcosanti is an experimental"Arcology prototype"- a demonstration project under construction in Arizona.
An Arcology would supply
and maintain its own connections to municipal or urban infrastructures in order to operate.
These structures have been largely hypothetical as no Arcology, even one envisioned by Soleri himself, has
yet been built.
An Arcology is distinguished from a merely large building
in that it is to lessen the impact of human habitation on any given ecosystem.
An Arcology would supply
and maintain its own municipal or urban infrastructures in order to operate and connect with other urban environments from its own.
Frank Lloyd Wright proposed an early
version called Broadacre City although, in contrast to an Arcology, Wright's idea is comparatively two-dimensional
and depends a road network.
McMurdo Station of United States Antarctic Program and
other scientific research stations on Antarctica resemble the popular conception of an Arcology as a technologically advanced, relatively self-sufficient human community.