{"id":91582,"date":"2019-06-03T11:23:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T18:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/theres-an-unfinished-city-of-the-future-tucked-away-in-the-arizona-desert"},"modified":"2019-06-03T11:23:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T18:23:30","slug":"theres-an-unfinished-city-of-the-future-tucked-away-in-the-arizona-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/theres-an-unfinished-city-of-the-future-tucked-away-in-the-arizona-desert","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s an Unfinished \u2018City of The Future\u2019 Tucked Away in The Arizona Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-an-unfinished-city-of-the-future-tucked-away-in-the-arizona-desert2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a giant contradiction in the middle of the Arizona desert: an experimental city designed for thousands that now contains only a few dozen inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly five decades, a group called the Cosanti Foundation has been working to build a city that would inspire a new future of urban design. Today, the project is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com\/story\/paolo-soleri-arcosanti-arizona\">only 5 percent complete<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Called <a href=\"https:\/\/arcosanti.org\/project\/about-arcosanti\/\">Arcosanti<\/a>, the city was envisioned by Italian architect Paolo Soleri, whose dream was to create an advanced urban laboratory where everyday activities could be powered by Earth\u2019s natural resources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/an-architect-s-weird-dream-in-arizona-s-desert-was-meant-to-be-a-city-of-the-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a giant contradiction in the middle of the Arizona desert: an experimental city designed for thousands that now contains only a few dozen inhabitants. For nearly five decades, a group called the Cosanti Foundation has been working to build a city that would inspire a new future of urban design. Today, the project is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}