[Red Badger]

[Lurker]

Fools and their money and all that.

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[MeganC]

Obviously they need a green high speed rail system.

[bigbob]

Sell it to some Dubai sheik, they like stuff like that and think desert climate is normal.

[lodi90]

Looks like a Soviet bloc suburb.

[Freedom4US]

“Non Profit Group”

Why does that sound like a scam, virtually every time I hear it used.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

range of environmentally-friendly features [including] natural vegetation to reduce energy costs

Who knew that Italian Cypress trees naturally grew in the Sonoran Desert? Did that evil white man Columbus bring the trees with him?

[catnipman]

seems like “futuristic hippie” is an oxymoron ...

[Magnum44]

[SparkyBass]

Shortly after moving to AZ we visited Arcosanti out of a weird curiosity. Aside from being a wasteland they did have some cool wind-chimes for sale (didn’t buy) but hanging outside the staircase to the cafeteria (we chose NOT to eat their food) were multiple strings of gray-to-brown undergarments freshly washed and hanging to dry.

it was disgusting. feral hippies.

[BBQToadRibs]

“...Cosanti Foundation has been working for decades ...
...The project is reportedly only 5 percent complete.”

I’m going to have to give them a F- for productivity.

[Songcraft]

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

       

[SGCOS]

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

[PUGACHEV]

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

[Jim Noble]

Pro tip: build near water and arable land.

[the_Watchman]

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.

[sphinx]

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.

[qaz123]

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.

[Mark]

Would have been completed if not for Globull Warming!

[Grimmy]

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.

[BlueLancer]

Sounds like the arcology used as a setting for Larry Niven's book in the Dream Park series, "The California Voodoo Game" ...