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The Victory City site is reviewed in Le Monde.fr.Not for us, thanks, tending rather to agree with the scepticism of the article. Got worried at the point where the system of lifts was given in dare we say obsessive detail. The whole vision seems so dated (partly the very style of the drawings, partly what's shown). But do we have a new one to replace it?


Mao (students doing compulsory agricultural work) + Orwell (communal caffs a la 1984)


But what we really want to know is who deicdes what's "Highly Recommended, Acceptable or Not Recommended in the free free newspaper.

Date: 2002-10-25 04:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gundaliro.livejournal.com
Hmm, the copyright on the site is 1998.

When I read the "students doing farmwork" thing, I thought immediately of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture apprentices or whatever at Taliesen, who he used to farm and cook while they ostensibly learned from the Great Man (tm).

I sort of thought the idea of your apartment becoming your hospital room kind of bizarre. I guess it might be an effective way of making people feel at home while they convalesced.

Date: 2002-10-26 06:01 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com
"Think of it as Evolution in Action", as Niven&Pournelle said. The whole arcology thing is just so twentieth century....

Date: 2002-10-26 06:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pickledginger.livejournal.com
Run away! Run away!

Sounds terribly grim - right out of some dystoopia or another, and another, and another.

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