there. His innocence re found. There also is the radicalization of the
urban structure. Airport included. This new in a sense is actually as old
as the first time status of life tour or three billion years ago when
swiftness was discovered as synonymous with or at least indispensable to
life. Mm But swiftness his only fitness or to be more precise fitness is
organized swiftness. The swift traveler, not the hurried traveler is the
only contented traveler. Then the relatively swift plane passenger
configuration must not land itself into this semi living airport with its
diaspora. Monster of a problem. The city included, not even yet
acknowledged. The truth of the matter is that we have a Julian propensity
for adding bottlenecks inside of bottlenecks and calling the result of
product of influence
on the subject in question. The primary bottlenecks are the connection of
the city to the airport. The report itself and the secondary bottlenecks
are the ticket counter, the luggage counter and the door to the airplane.
Of these five. Only the last is necessary and acceptable, but the ability
to get rid of the other four is in the new innocent suggested above. The
new innocence. To use another analogy is when and where mankind's piece
fits into the puzzle of the cosmos. If man happens and it would not be by
accident to coincide with himself in Ophelia. That ought to be, then the
puny problem of the airport will fuse itself into the problem of society
with millions of others. If not, then it will remain with man as one of
the minor headaches of his confused species
Before coming to the constructive part of my proposition. It might be well
to face the concept of the usual and the unusual
if by way of illustration, we take an animal, cut it open and observe our
confidence in what we consider to be usual or natural is shaken. It is a
bloody congestion. We watch there nothing polite or being about it. That's
a hell of a creature twitching a universe furiously in pursuit, trying to
survive, brutally, single minded, awesomely secretive and complex, indeed
, a most remote stranger to behold. Yet that is what we are. Each of us
biological organisms and we know
we are but strangers to ourselves.
We know what we know of what we are is literally skin deep, and our brain
contortions float somewhere out in the cold. We know but an abstraction of
ourselves and we are despondently and disproportionately inclined to live
by it all. This is to point out that the familiar proposition is not
necessarily true and that the shock of revelation not not by itself to
alert one of the presence of the absurd. At a first glance, much that is
not of our consciousness shocks is absurd and we are quick at rejection.
It is almost as automatic as the biological rejection of an organ
transplanted. That we observe in medicine.
Mm I am conceptually introducing and not too gently either into the urban
body. The city terminal a semi solid block of furiously driven events. A
sanguine and animal turmoil, covertly disciplined and multi directed. The
para animal we call society falls under the rigor and the rules of the
biological. For both are of the same universe and both the biological
animal achiever of incredible complexity and society which is oriented
towards increasingly more and more complex forms of complexity. Our
complexity driven. Mhm. Yeah, careful. Look at the nature of complexity
will show that it is welded to the process of miniaturization.
Complexity is an increment of coordinated activities happening in
contracting spaces as there is no complex ification that does not
coincidentally involve contraction. So there is no city without a
corresponding miniaturization of the physical structure that supports it.
It is here that the new level of innocence bids farewell to the romantic
notion that man and soil must mingle in an inexhaustible embrace
nature, man and creator. Man with all the cohorts of middle and average
men are moving away from the soil if hardly closer to that hypothetical
kingdom of compassion and grace that I like to go. The aesthetic a genesis
of matter, a kingdom not in opposition to nature, but constructing itself
into its own transcendent nature. That is to say, the nature of man does
not dwell in the gilded Hamlets of home and garden, but is thrust in that
same unfamiliar and frightful turbulence we discover within the contented
skin of every organism contented because successful.
But this success is carried by an enormously rigorous discipline guided by
omnipresent rules. It is actually a miracle that perpetuates itself. A
triple miracle of consolidation, reiteration and progression. Not as one
can see the stuff suburbia and megalopolis are made of. But the only stuff
that can stand and can spell the stresses of life's genesis.
The case of the airport is becoming a glaring example of insular nonsense.
Once purpose and instrumentality become inconsequential, the solution is
automatically out of sight. It is instead historically right that once a
technique in this case air transportation has been proven as sound, it be
incorporated in the fabric of reality in the most coherent manner possible.
Let him go from itself. Those parts that happen to be of no more use in
the case of air transportation. The airport as an autonomous and
physically isolated system has seen its day.
If this is so, it must go the sooner the better. Yes. Mhm Mr salary will
now show some slides to elaborate and illustrate this material.
Yeah,
I'm I'm showing some of the of the schemes that I hope. We'll illustrate
the the paper,
this person is a very pure theoretical the diagram showing that the city
takes the place of the terminal
and in this case the landing facilities are suggested as are continuously
around the city.
This is the same diagram.
This this was designed for New Jersey, the Meadows
And the city which was the airport becomes a one million populations urban
center and according to the land
system,
we have we have the landing strips surrounding the city and then the
access to a a unloading and loading runway in here taxing. So you arrive
or you leave from the city directly into the into what they call the what
we used to call the airport. So this takes the place of the airport itself
becomes the center where most of the people would come and go from.
Your land is stripped, wood would surround the city and then you would
have the vertical take off and vertical landing on top of the city.
This indicates the development of the ground level and underground level
where the industry will develop.
This was another site in New Jersey. It was training the same idea.
Mm hmm. Can you focus on that?
This was a little model of this concept. You see the taxing in here
flanked by the industrial plans and you had the taxing with freight
loading and unloading on this side and loading unloading people on this
side. From here to the court of the city would take only a few minutes
on top of the, of the industrial system. Our parks and gardens.
Yeah,
this is an elevation of the same structure
in the section. You can see the the taxing space. So the airplane, the air
carrier would come in from the landing strips come in here. A lot. A lot
be serviced and so on. And the passengers would be directly connected with
the urban centers,
industries, loading and unloading. I'm not going into the the organization
of the city because this is not the point of this symposium,
we're making a large model of the whole land and uh urban organization.
This was a mock up of this model. This is a new model we're working on
very briefly this section which which is the mid section of the city is
all the space related to the urban life, commerce, leisure, culture and so
on. And those systems are dwelling basically
those are neighborhood levels, dwelling systems. The city center itself
in this thickness is the urban life. Here is the private life, private
life here and there. This develops into a fool a circular organizations.
Uh huh. Those are other examples of cluster systems which would again
incorporate landing facilities in this case, vertical landing facilities
within the city itself.
This is a much smaller scheme and without landing, vertical landing and
vertical takeoff from the top of one of those columns.
This is about 30,000 population, the one before it was about 250,000.
And there are cut out to show the inside,
This is another one of about 300,000 and again, I'm showing a vertical
takeoff airport. Let's call it.
This is the same structure.
This at the airport,
This is another one and this is again the landing facilities on top of the
city. This is about one km inside. It's a cube And about 400,000
population
one kilometer inside. And that's the airport,
the inside of it.
Another another example with again vertical mhm system will take off and
landing.
This is a dam which is also an urban center with again airport on this
platform
the same in front of you.
And finally here is a concept over over an urban lever. This is a section
of a system that would develop for hundreds or thousands of miles and you
have your urban life organized on the sides of this main structure which
is mainly transportation and industries. And on top of this structure, you
have an endless airport in a sense that you can land at any any position
in any section of this urban system, possibly every 100 miles or 200 miles
or so and served directly the urban life at the productive life. So
everything would be so organized that has to be a few minutes away from
anything else. Yeah. Uh huh. So this is, as I can see it is really the,
the most efficient approach to organizing life and uh logistics in one
continuous system.
And I didn't answer.
It's with great delight. We invite you to the podium to invite you to
focus on the aviation environment, particularly in the light of the urban
structure. Mr McCartney. Mhm.
Thank you. Mr Beckett. Ladies and gentlemen, uh an expert is defined not
as a man from out of town, but a man who makes no little mistakes in his
widow celestial blunder. And for me, the best way of making a celestial
blunder would be to talk about aviation. I only have the normal
experiences of an american citizen uh such as I had today, spending quite
a long time, an hour and the end of the runway at Salt Lake City or the
night before when I made two unsuccessful attempts to go from Portland to
Eugene Oregon. Everything that this brilliant man, Silveria said, I think
uh evokes a response for me. I think airports of places. One would rather
not be in airplanes that place, our vehicles which are occupied by shoe
salesman glamour is something which has never entered an airplane in spite
of stewardesses or an airport. Uh I think the only only observation I have
to make about aviation before I talk about the subject I care about which
I have some relevance. I think, to your preoccupations is that by and
large aviation has given herself over to the concept of the speed of the
trip is rather more important than the quality of the trip. And I would
say that that is a very adolescent view that older men have always
realized of course that the quality of the experience is rather more
important than speed of the trip. Okay. Yeah. Mhm.
Yeah. All right. So what I'm not going to talk about is ecological
planning. I suspect engineers and people engaged in almost all activities
new until recently. Nothing about ecology at all. And they assumed that
God given right to destroy nature for private greed, benefit and malice uh
and did so with all joy and great expedition as a result of luna, Leopold
needed county airport. People in aviation have now begun to understand the
ecology is something rather important. And I believe the SST our final
aeronautic idiocy will yeah, leaders into understanding the stratosphere
before we emulate the activities which Krakatau, I was able to do. I think
we had two years of gloom in the world and two years without harvest as a
result of the particular matter which caricature put into the stratosphere.
Lamont called the Ecologist at Cornell believes that this can be
accomplished by a TSS TSS and this would be a final accumulation and
idiocy. This. Yeah. And the aeronautic. First without doubt, I have water
here.
Well, because you really have to know about ecology whether you want to or
not. And I'm a man who stands halfway between you and ecologists that is,
I'm a recent convert. I'm not a biological scientist but I consume them
and have learned from them and I make an enormous amount of income
relative to me that is a man who has so long lived in ignominy and poverty.
I make a fair amount chastising the likes of you have income out of all
those who have a strong feeling of guilt about what you've been doing to
the environment or if you don't have it should have. So I will talk now on
the general subject of ecology and ecology is the basis for planning,
because I've got to pump up some adrenaline. I will tell some stories
which I need in order to pump up some adrenaline. Uh The first story, I
use these mercilessly and if anybody can get me better ones, I'll replace
the present ones with the ones you tell me for a moment. The first story
is an image conceived by Loren Eiseley, a great cultural anthropologist at
the University of pennsylvania. Eiseley realized that man was about to
infest space. And he conceived at that time when man from space would be
able to look from this disadvantage at the earth. This man in space, then
hypothetical man in space was able to see the earth from this great
distance. In the small rotating orb, he perceived it was green green from
the maritime algae in the oceans, green from Virgil on land. He perceived
the earth really was covered by green biosphere. It was indeed a green
celestial fruit. And as you looked at it more closely perceived it on this
green celestial fruit. Our home on the biosphere, there were blemishes,
necrotic pathological tissue, brown, black gray and from these extended
dynamic tentacles, he perceived that blemishes upon the world life
epidermis, where in fact the city's works of man and asked is man but a
planetary disease. And I think the conclusion is, if you were a planetary
doctor from far out in space, looking about the and the earth and seeing
the one species was multiplying itself at an exponential rate. And not
only extra pitting other species but extra pitting the environment which
was essential for its own survival, you would conclude indeed that man was
a planetary disease. But if you looked at it a little bit more closely,
one would also wish, of course, for a as a sort of celestial penicillin,
which one could dust upon the particular planetary diseases and vaporize
them, let's say. But it's important to recognize that not all men are
quickly planetary diseases. The Defense Department is almost totally, I
would say, composed of planetary disease. All these people have given
themselves over to s the intercontinental ballistic missiles and um who
are these Pietrus in people who are concerned with Numa cokie and anthrax
and agents of biochemical warfare. These men may very well wake up in the
morning wash shave dress, but you know, brush their teeth and put
deodorant under the armpits. But they're deluding nobody. They are in fact
not men, their ambulance pathological disease disguised as men. Their wife
should not admit them to bed. Their Children shouldn't kiss them. Their
friends shouldn't greet them to their ministers Rabbis and police should
excoriate them. This should be reviled and persecuted. However, I think I
don't want to dwell on this particularly, but merely to induce her
inappropriate sense of guilt where it properly reposes. Uh So you know, if
you have any reason for guilt, by all means accepted and I will give you
some more. Um as a man who was born a presbyterian, I learned a
fundamental lesson. That is the audience must have a profound sense of
guilt before it will move towards salvation. And as we know, written on
the wall, it's not many, many tickle a parson that says ecology, ecology,
ecology. Truth there. We are planetary diseases. Um All of the atomic
warfare people, uh the biochemical warfare people, the napalm defoliation
people, the dow chemicals, Montrose chemicals, all of the reign of death.
Patricia isn't disease types. This guy's as men. And of course our great
great corporations whose products may be household words, but who are not
yet talent trained uh certainly fall in this category too. Not least, of
course. The great polluters of Detroit, all of these are without some
degree or other planetary diseases. Alright, the next story is my own
blood. From bread from introspection. On the proliferation of nuclear
power And respect of this. Present in my nightmare. Some white coated
sepulchral noncombatant warrior has decided that some temporary human
squabble between. Some miscalled. The great powers can be resolved
atomically and in nightmare. He resolves it atomically. And so the earth
earth is covered with a rain of atomic weapons which extra pit all life
save in one deep latin slit were long and you to radiation persists a
small colony of algae. These little uni cellular plants and they perceive
that all life has been extra pated saved. A and the whole business of
evolution of mutation, cooperation, competition, adaptation, 2.5 billion
years of this must ensue at least in order to recover only yesterday. And
they come to an immediate spontaneous and unanimous conclusion next time.
No brains.
It's not an idle discussion this battle of brains because we believe of
course a man is justified by brains that man is in fact man brain,
everything from the neck up is splendid and justifies everything from the
neck down is faintly sweaty, harry, carnal, sinful and the proper function
of brain is for brain to subjugate dominate this carnal sweaty glandular
lower part uh which is of course essentially Judaism and Christianity. And
this has been extended to assume that man brain has exactly the same role
to cardinal sweaty glandular nature and the role of man. Man brain is in
fact to conquer and subjugate nature. So that if one wants to understand
the enormous disaffiliated, which is the fruits of Western man's work over
2.5 1000 years of time, then one can understand it beautifully in terms of
the explicit creation story absorbed by Judaism, Christianity and humanism
, which simply says that man is an exclusively divine everything else is
rubbish. There's a hierarchy with men at the pinnacle God, the arc angels
and man and then the sort of dandruff falls below and man is exclusively
divine. He's given Dominion over life and nonlife Dominion. This is not a
term for negotiations. Little discussion about Dominion lie down his
dominions. The Sergeant Major view of the universe. Man is a Sergeant
major and everything will bow down before him. And of course if you have
any doubt about this text and the third line absolutely concludes. It says
that man is licensed to subjugate the earth. And if you want to find a
text for the non competent
extra pitcher of all life, the man who wants to make atomic harbors with
Alaskan harbors with atomic bombs or Panama canals or simply drive a
bulldozer. You have in fact the perfect text here. If you want to see the
reason, if you want to find the text which has motivated instruction
accomplished by Western man at all time, that is a text. And if you want
to see what the operator verb of Western man is towards nature, you find
it it is in fact conquest and Dominion and subjugation. And of course
brains are the instrument of conquest, Dominion and subjugation, we have
got to see that this is a madness. But there's no conception of a man. Uh
you know with an ambulance brain, one has to have the area from the neck
down. And I am so glad we do. Uh There is no conception of man without
nature uh matters. And in fact profoundly natural. This conception which
is our view of nature is the basis for our conquest which really finally
can only involve our self mutilation are self destruction. There's a view
of man and nature which must be eliminated because neither does it have a
neither has an adaptive value. No it doesn't has no adaptive value at all.
But even worse is an absolute guarantee of our extinction. Our extinction
will result from men who believe that they are exclusively divine. The
nature is where is not protected by God, That man's role is to dominate
nature and subjugated. And if you want the metaphysical symbol for Western
man's due to nature, you can see it very explicitly in the garden of
Versailles. I suggest to you this best represents our view of man and
nature man. God in nature, the best symbol deserves being created.
Consider it. This garden took half the Treasury of France during the life
of louis the 14th to make the main axis was a mile and a half long. The
cross axis is half a mile wide. The two axes come together. The the Palace
of Versailles which the purpose of which is only to represent this
conjunction at the axis in the Palace of Versailles is the bedroom of
louis the 14th At the axes, in the bedroom is in fact the bed of Louis the
14th and on the bed lies louis the 14th King, remembered by divine right
lying transacted. You see by the twin axes with all nature Docile
tractable plants gathered into an embroidery pattern line form,
symbolizing his divinity, symbolizing and representing his Dominion over
nature and his success in subjugating it. He louis the 14th, lying in his
bed, regretting profoundly the fact that it was not entirely symmetrical.