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[BS.Dos.]

The other thing I like about those buildings as opposed to ecosymmetrical architecture, is that they're slightly tiered, which means they'll collect more rainwater.

[NoExplode]

I wonder what the price differences will be to own space in the largest pen1s as opposed to the tiny little one.

[sojourner1]

I like it. It's definitely in more harmony with nature while obvious it's a center built by intellegent life forms. Looks like something on another world in a science fiction story. The question are:
Will it be pollution free and recycle what it uses? Will everyone's drain water, poisonous from things like bleach and toilet bowl cleaner, flow right into the rivers like it currently does all over the place? Will the air be polluted from 50,000 cigarette smokers driving diesel powered trucks and 10,000 old ladies burning rubbish on the sides of the streets? Will rainbow film be on the water surface of mud puddles, ponds, and rivers? Will the shallow dug sewer system with openings sour the air with the smell of rotting human feces? These are all serious environmental issues in your typical towns and cities which all seem to look alike and do the same boring polluting behaviors.

While this is a plausable attempt at a green city, it still leaves out factories and all the gross behind the scenes stuff they got low skilled blue collar workers doing in every day city life that supports the rich to get richer. The big wig employers will always try to ignore the dirty part of operating instead of spending the money to do it right unless showing off one single concept example.

I feel this experimental city is only a cosmetic attempt to show an example of doing the right thing for society and our worlds natural environment; something all life should have the right to have. Fresh air and nature should be a right not something profiteers are allowed to ruthlessly destroy and then try to sell us electronic purifiers to correct the problem. They need to apply a green idea to a polluting process causing environmental problems we're all contending with as we live, breath, work, play, eat, drink, and sleep. Instead of releasing raw sewage into rivers and the sea and letting chemicals spew out into the air, contain these to be scrubbed out of air and water and then recycle the remaining solid waste or store it in containers.

[earthbound14]

I hate this shite.

It's the same nonsense as the new town movement of the modernist era (international style). LeCorbusier sucked at it (Chandigarh) and no new town has ever created what they boldly proclaimed they would. Not that they are horrible, Gunpo (Sanbon) in Anyang city is a far cry better than the unplanned areas surrounding it here in Korea.

People are not smart enough to single handedly create a city. They need to grow under smart planning (sustainable planning, cities and architecture).

Check out Acrosanti in the US or Shimizu TRY 2004 in Japan for other goofy arcology (there are a bunch of different goofy names for every goof who is trying to submit that they are the ones that really know what an eco city is...Ecopolis, Ecumenopolis, Eco city, Bionic Architecture, Eco-techture.....)

While great in ideal, they just aren't functioning cities or able to fit within existing functioning cities.

If you want real sustainable cities they look more like real towns....pretty boring actually but they work. Making a sustainable city is about basic planning and common sense know how.

Check out Curitiba in Brazil (Not that horrndous excuse for a city, Brasilia, designed to look like a plane from the air....).

Or Copenhagen (especially the municipality of Kalundborg) in Denmark.

This eco city plan for Korea is just another fluff piece created by people who wish were the big brains of the operation rather than the little swinging dicks.