Chapter 1--Urban Form: Visions and Realities
Appendix: Graphic Representation of Arcosanti and Arcology
The network is the urban site before us, an invitation to design
and construct the 'City of Bits' (capital of the twenty-first century).
. . . This will be a city uprooted to any definite spot on the surface
of the earth, shaped by connectivity and bandwidth constraints rather than
by accessibility and land values, largely asynchronous in its operation,
and inhabited by disembodied and fragmented subjects who exist as collections
of aliases and agents. Its places will be constructed virtually by software
instead of physically from stones and timbers, and they will be connected
by logical linkages rather than by doors, passageways, and streets.
(Mitchell, 1995)
Ivan Schonfeld
September 1998
Email: ibs8@hotmail.com