Geography/Planning 379 :

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Geography/Planning 379 Urban Growth
DevelopmentLecture 23 Future Urban Geographies

• The Urban RegionMegalopolis, BosWash, SanSan?
• 2. Strips and Megastructures
• 3. Ecumenopolis vs. Arcologies
• Your Future Urban Geographies?
• Practice Exam 3
• Suppose a thousand suns should rise together
  into the sky such is the glory of the shape of
  the infinite.
• Bhagavad-Gita

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1. The Urban Region

• Way back in 1970 U.S. Commission on Population
  Growth and the American Future Urban
  Constellations
• Inspiration for the idea Jean Gottmans
  Megalopolis
• Todays version The Network City

ChiPitts
San San
BosWash or BosNYWash
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2. Strips and Megastructures

• Decentralization, major theme of the course
• Strips The Linear logic of the auto

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Megastructures

• Supersizers dominate our lives
• Big Government
• Big Corporations
• Big Universities
• Big Developments
• Big Box Stores
• Superregional Malls

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3. Ecumenopolis vs. Arcologies

• Two opposing futurist views
• Doxiadis Ecumenopolis
• Wispy lacelike World City
• Two scales local global
• Paolo Soleri Arcologies
• Arcology Architecture Ecology
• Arcosanti http//www.arcosanti.org/

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Your Future Urban Geographies?What kind of
urban areas will you help build?