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Arcologies and Compact Cities pack functionality
Soleri's Arcology
- Architectural implosion of cities
- Form a human relationship to the environment
Dantzig & Saaty's Compact City
- Comprehensive proposal for many aspects of a functioning hyperstructure
Crawford's Carfree Cities
- Reference designs most applicable to transit approach and assumptions used in this thesis
Notes:
Implosion of cities driven by economics: dense cities must be cheaper and offer much more functionality than surrounding suburbia
TOD often accomplishes just the opposite: raises property values
Soleri 1969 focuses on form, Dantzig & Saaty 1973 (fathers of linear programming and analytic hierarchy process, respectively) discussion details of function
Crawford 2002 reference designs focus on topologies and mechanisms