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This unfinished Arizona 'futuristic hippie commune' has a problem
FOX News ^ | By Christopher Carbone

Posted on 06/07/2019 10:42:48 AM PDT by Red Badger

In the middle of Arizona's desert lies something unexpected: a rather strange, unfinished "city of the future."

Jutting out of the vast, barren Sonoran Desert and reachable only by car, Arcosanti's domes and curved structures look like something imagined up by a science fiction writer.

There's one big problem, however: The project is reportedly only 5 percent complete.

A nonprofit group called the Cosanti Foundation has been working for decades to create a city that would inspire the future of urban design by incorporating a range of environmentally-friendly features to reduce sprawl and minimize the need for cars while harnessing solar power and natural vegetation to energy reduce costs (sic).

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: arcosanti; arizona; communism
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To: Red Badger

"...and reachable only by car..."


       

21 posted on 06/07/2019 10:57:52 AM PDT by Songcraft
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To: Red Badger

about a mile of I-17....I was thinking this place was in the middla nowhere


22 posted on 06/07/2019 10:58:44 AM PDT by SGCOS
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To: Red Badger

Just look at that gorgeous deep blue Arizona sky. That is what it looks like.


23 posted on 06/07/2019 11:00:42 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: Red Badger

Don’t need an airport to land a helo (providing you can get back to where you came from with the remaining fuel). The CEO of my company lands his helo in our parking lot or the small vacant parcel next door regularly.


24 posted on 06/07/2019 11:01:29 AM PDT by Ribeye (Cranial Protection Equipment courtesy of Reynolds Aluminum)
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To: Red Badger

Pro tip: build near water and arable land.


25 posted on 06/07/2019 11:02:25 AM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: Lurker

No gas stations..................


26 posted on 06/07/2019 11:02:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

Paolo Soleri was in competition with Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright was espousing what we know as suburbs. Fortunately, Wright’s point of view won the day.

When I visited I was taken aback by all the stairs and steps I encountered. It was clearly not elderly or handicap friendly.


27 posted on 06/07/2019 11:03:41 AM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: Red Badger
There are two kinds of hippie communes. The first are those that live on other people's money. These tend not to last very long. The other are those that take seriously the business of earning a living. Most of these will eventually fail, just as most startup small businesses fail within five years, but those with a sound business plan sometimes survive, and even thrive. Most don't get very large, however, because making a living is hard work and there are usually easier ways to do it than going the hippie reinvent-the-wheel route. People have to be really committed to the community to stick it out. The motivation for the long-term successes is usually religious.

I have no problems at all with people marching to a different drummer as long as they're good neighbors and pay their own bills.

28 posted on 06/07/2019 11:04:17 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: PUGACHEV

Lookin right at it today! So yeah.


29 posted on 06/07/2019 11:05:16 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: SparkyBass
Ditto the Earthship Community near Taos. I took my kids there to see an example of failed socialism. Nobody there had a job. They were all lying around in bikinis and shorts, sunbathing and smoking weed. Living off government subsidies.
30 posted on 06/07/2019 11:05:18 AM PDT by Cheesehead in Texas
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To: Red Badger

Is this the thing that Gates’ was funding to show the world how awesome he is?

I guess that’s kind of easy when you’re in the top 3 or 4 of the richest folks on the planet.


31 posted on 06/07/2019 11:06:25 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Red Badger

Would have been completed if not for Globull Warming!


32 posted on 06/07/2019 11:07:34 AM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: Red Badger

Oh looky there.

The monsters moved those poor endangered rocks from their natural habitat and stacked them up like cord-wood.

Rocks are not wood, people!

Those responsible should be fined, put in jail all the property seized and turned over to BLM so a Senator can sell it to the Chinese.


33 posted on 06/07/2019 11:08:37 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Red Badger
Sounds like the arcology used as a setting for Larry Niven's book in the Dream Park series, "The California Voodoo Game" ...
34 posted on 06/07/2019 11:08:59 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: Red Badger

I can only imagine what living there might be like.


35 posted on 06/07/2019 11:09:14 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Magnum44

LOL!


36 posted on 06/07/2019 11:10:02 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Jim Noble

You mean building in the middle of the Sonoran Desert isn’t viable?................


37 posted on 06/07/2019 11:10:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: BlueLancer

arcology ????


38 posted on 06/07/2019 11:10:50 AM PDT by Reily
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To: SGCOS
..I was thinking this place was in the middle a nowhere
39 posted on 06/07/2019 11:11:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: SGCOS
..I was thinking this place was in the middle a nowhere

They can see it from there..............

40 posted on 06/07/2019 11:11:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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