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.