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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).

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: arcosanti; arizona; communism
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To: Cheesehead in Texas

“They were all lying around in bikinis and shorts, sunbathing and smoking weed.”

Wait - I thought you said it failed?


81 posted on 06/07/2019 6:34:08 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: Red Badger

82 posted on 06/07/2019 6:36:34 PM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: 21twelve

Sounds like college.


83 posted on 06/07/2019 6:45:07 PM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: Red Badger

https://arcosanti.org/about/cosanti-foundation/


84 posted on 06/07/2019 6:54:43 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Red Badger

Maybe some of the homeless can find some new squatting quarters....that’s probably what it would end up for anyway...


85 posted on 06/08/2019 2:28:40 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: BBQToadRibs

F for productivity happens when you live on a diet of pot and jug wine.


86 posted on 06/08/2019 4:52:21 PM PDT by faturism (faturism k)
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To: dirtymac

You can’t get there from here....................


87 posted on 06/10/2019 6:32:49 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: dead

Liberals all want Utopia.

They just don’t want to pay for it......................


88 posted on 06/10/2019 6:45:03 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

I love that sign. I have seen it in various remote location on several occasions. Kind of really describes where you are at on any given location.


89 posted on 06/10/2019 2:08:59 PM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country! Now)
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To: Red Badger

They want to build an 18th century city?


90 posted on 06/10/2019 2:10:00 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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