Arcology – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:55:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 This 1,400-Foot Desert Citadel Would Be A Self-Sustaining City Of Tomorrow — By John Brownlee | Fast Company https://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/07/this-1400-foot-desert-citadel-would-be-a-self-sustaining-city-of-tomorrow-fast-company Wed, 29 Jul 2015 03:11:19 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=15775 3049115-inline-i-1-this-1400-foot-desert-citadel-would-be-a-self-copy

It may look like Immortan Joe’s Citadel from Mad Max: Fury Road, but this abstract desert obelisk isn’t a citadel of the post-apocalypse. It’s a self-contained city—also called an arcology—that French firms Nicholas Laisné Associés and OXO Architects propose to build in the Saharan desert.

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