The Organic City
Certain places -- crowded shopping malls, bustling downtowns, airports, highways, seen from above -- always remind me of Patrick Farley's heart-rendingly poetic description of the future:
Bloated, curvaceous structures -- engineered by the same people who designed Corvette Stingrays and Yes album covers -- built out of shiny fiberglass, pristine chrome, and pulsating neon light -- Tomorrow's city would be a Space Age coral reef, teeming with millions of funky life forms, its limitless nooks and enclaves seething with parties, discos, arcades, and mind-blowing good times....
Everywhere I look I see hints of this organic metropolis to come. Each back-alley vendor, each hot dog stand, each bus stop and train station, is like a tiny coral polyp, capable of surviving on its own but also inextricably linked to the entire construct. Together they form something massive and dynamic, fractal in its infinite reef-like complexity.
This is the future I see.
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No use wanting. Each of us has a vision of the future, and we work to bring it about (or prevent it). I don’t know if Aa’s vision is meant as utopic or dystopic, or both. Is this the way you want it to be? I wouldn’t mind it.
I was in Times Square recently, looking at RNN’s giant liquid crystal display and all the massive screens and I said, this is how I want it to be. Not everywhere, but here at least, it’s good. I think I’m different from most people in this.
And, wait… Why the hell do we need domed cities?!
Posted by Kieran at December 24, 2002 2:25 PM :: LinkDuh, dude, because it’s a dome.
Come on, this one was obvious. I just threw it in because it’s a DOME!
Jetsons style, represent!
(holla back, young’n)
Posted by Alex at December 24, 2002 5:08 PM :: LinkDude. The Jetsons lived in SPACE. Of course they needed domes.
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Vision of the future… ahh. Exactly my vision as well. No corners, just one flowing surface. Maybe it’s destroying the earth, but I definately think domed cities are going to be the future. Man, I definately want the future to come now.
Posted by Alex at December 23, 2002 3:20 PM :: Link