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• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Homevision
• VHS Release Date: June 16, 2000
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6303012078
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #261,066 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars A man WAY ahead of his time, July 28, 2005

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This review is from: Soleri's Cities Architecture for Planet [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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.