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An Early Eco-City Faces the Future
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of New York Times
Posted: January 6th, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/garden/an-early-eco-city-f...
Occupying the middle of nowhere must have appealed to the students, architects and seekers of the 1970s who founded Arcosanti, an urban laboratory in the desert 70 miles north of Phoenix. Above all, they were able to join an ongoing colloquy with the citys visionary designer, Paolo Soleri. In a cosmic language of his own invention..., Mr. Soleri proselytized for a carless society in harmony with the natural world. Over the course of 40 years, some 7,000 souls would come and go. For the most part, though, they left. And last fall, Mr. Soleri joined this group himself, retiring at age 92 as the president of the parent Cosanti Foundation. The foundations new president, Jeff Stein, 60, [was] formerly dean of the Boston Architectural College. But if Mr. Stein cant miraculously transform Arcosanti into a dense eco-city for 5,000 residents and that was always Mr. Soleris plan what should it become instead? Whatever Mr. Stein may wish to do, for now it will have to be accomplished with an operating budget of less than $1 million. His first job, perhaps, is to become an ambassador: to remind the world that Arcosanti exists as a going concern. Some 25,000 [visitors] stop here each year. 56 inspired souls ... continue to live and work and dream in the Arcosanti that exists today.
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