Rural Depopulation (was Cars and Factory Work)

Gar W. Lipow lipowg at sprintmail.com
Thu May 7 11:12:39 PDT 1998


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> Though I am very partial to urbanity, in places like Japan where megacities
> (such as
> Tokyo and Kobe) are sitting right on top of earthquake-prone fault lines,
> some degrees of decentralization and less concentrated residential and
> industrial development must be part of a socialist plan.
>
> Yoshie

Are you sure? Is it equally possible that Paolo Soleri style Arcologies might be part of the socialist plan? I've always underatood that such "cities in a building" could reduce energy and resource consumption by 90 percent or more , and be made pretty earthquake resistant besides.



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