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How Would An Arcology Developer Build A Sustainable Arcosanti Community?

2/17/2015

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Just hypothetically, now, how about let's make a list of values we believe go hand-in-hand with development of arcology; then let's define those values. It's still a rhetorical question, of course, because we know we're nowhere near the point of being able to carry out construction - we have a few tools, a nice chunk of land, a few hardy souls scrabbling dirt and dreams, jugglers of conflicting visions, contradictory loyalties, empires of frugality, consensus as a conceptual ground rule, commitment to - what? 

Here's an idea, although it comes from what Paolo (no student of social development history) imagined was the antithesis of arcology: 

                  "To live content with small means; 
to seek elegance rather than luxury; 
refinement rather than fashion; 
to be worthy, not respectable; 
wealthy, not rich; 
to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; 
to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages; 
to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. 
In a word, 
to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common....
This is my symphony, 
[to live in our small town]."  
(William Ellery Channing, American moralist, Unitarian Clergyman and Author, 1780-1842)


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