"Steve Paris" wrote in message
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> > roads, the downsizing of cities and metropolitan areas, cities
> > converting to car-free status, and car-free cities such as Acrosanti,
>
> Arcosanti is not a city. It is a few buildings in the middle of the
desert.
> It is an experiment in urban living.[...]
> I have actually been to Arcosanti. I enjoyed the visit in the same way
that
> I enjoyed visiting Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesen West in Scottsdale. They
> are interesting places from architectural and historical viewpoints.
Neither
> facility houses many people and neither represents the kind of building[s]
> I'd want to live in. And both places are reached by automobile and have
> parking lots.
I don't know what Paolo Soleri's position is on the car, but Wright saw it
as essential for the realization of his ideal metropolis, "Broadacre City."
Some of his "Usonian" houses -- which were intended to be affordable housing
for the middle class -- sport carports, which I believe were a Wright
innovation.
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