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City 2.0: on the death of Paolo Soleri
April 10, 2013 in art, creativity, reflection, stories, travel | Tags: architecture, arcology, Arcosanti, Arizona, cities, environment, green, Las Vegas, Marissa Mayer, Montezuma Castle, Paolo Soleri, sustainability, urban, vacation, Yahoo | 4 comments
Yesterday’s news of the death of Paolo Soleri — the visionary architect, builder, artist, writer and theorist — put me in mind of our family visit last month to Arcosanti, Soleri’s urban experiment in the desert of Arizona.
Sixty five miles north of Phoenix, Arcosanti was described by NEWSWEEK magazine as “…the most important urban experiment undertaken in our lifetimes.” Read the rest of this entry »