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arcology, n.|ɑːˈkɒlədʒɪ|
[Blend of architecture n. + ecology n.]
a. A style of urban planning, orig. proposed by the Italian-born U.S. architect Paolo Soleri (b. 1919), which envisages fully integrated cities, each contained within a massive vertical structure, thereby allowing maximum conservation of the surrounding environment.
b. A city built on these principles.
1969P. Soleri (title) Arcology: the city in the image of man. Ibid. 31/1 Architecture is in the process of becoming the physical definition of a multilevel, human ecology. It will be arc-ology. Arcology..will be an aesthetocompassionate phenomenon. 1971UNESCO Courier Apr. 7 Soleri calls his style ‘arcology’, a word coined from the marriage of ‘architecture’ and ‘ecology’. 1985G. Kendall White Wing (1986) x. 130 He remembered their street in the arcology on Nahi II, the hard-packed dirt just outside the complex where nothing ever grew. 1988B. Sterling Islands in Net v. 178 They're making massive arcologies out of nothing! |