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Actor: Soleri's Cities-Architecture F
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 30 minutes
Release Date: 2000-06-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Homevision
Studio: Homevision

VHS Movie Reviews of Soleri's Cities Architecture for Planet [VHS]

Movie Review: A man WAY ahead of his time
Summary: 5 Stars

Soleri's city was a hot place for Architecture students to intern back in the 70's when I was in school. Today he is still struggling to create his city. While it only sports a few buildings that are a shadow of his original inspiration, his idea of combining living, working, and argricultural space into a green, energy efficient community is probably needed more today then it was thiry years ago. With Global warming slowly destroying the planet as politicians do nothing, Soleri's city concept offers a solution that people can embrace without winning an election. I use the video as part of my Architecture lecture in my Humanities class. Not only is it an interesting chronicle of the project, it is also a good biography of Soleri, a student of Frank Llyod Wright, who lived and worked at Taliesin.

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Summary of Soleri's Cities Architecture for Planet [VHS]

Cities around the planet are in crisis. Their rapid growth and the expansion of suburbia have produced polluted urban environments whose inhabitants are increasingly alienated from one another. Paolo Soleri, a former student of Frank Lloyd Wright, proposes an entirely new type of city--the Arcology, which merges ecological principles into its architecture--as a prototype for the future.

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