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Yeah.

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Mm hmm.

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It would be very hard to imagine any
kind of civilization or cultural

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development divorced by the phenomenon
of the of the city because in a way

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it's that environment that seems to be
producing the the impulse in in

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singular minds to come up with the new
inventions, new applications of

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things, new discoveries and eventually
new creations. But if you if you

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separate each mind and let them go
into some kind of oblivion or some kind

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of isolation and segregation, then
it's very hard to think that very much

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will happen. I think his idea of, you
know, of the city and in many

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respects, it's not that visionary,
it's just about reality of what cities

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have always had to be through time.
And he's trying to bring us a way of

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creating cities with our culture with
our technology that's appropriate

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city is like an organism. And and it's
got to have, you know, it's got to

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have a healthy heart, it's got to have
a healthy liver and lungs and arms

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and legs and that sort of thing. And
you've got to have those components

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and and the key that I think Solari is
probably been at the, one of the

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real forefront of trying to help
define for us is is looking at the city

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is kind of a sustainable organism and
and what is it we need to take in in

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order to in order to survive and be
strong and what is it we don't need to

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take it, what is it that we that we
take in, it's harmful to us. And if we

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can define those elements more
accurately. And many of those things are

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economic, economically driven, we can
define those things and keep

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ourselves. I think we've got a much
greater opportunity for a sustainable

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city that in which everybody prospers

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and what goes for an organism goes for
for life in general. So if you want

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to be true true with with the nature
of life, you have to remember that

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the coming together is where life gets
its own mm hmm reality. And the

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distribution of life comes with death.
And to me when you have a city

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which tends to be pulled together and
suddenly is breaking, breaking down

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into a suburban sprawl, that means
that the dying process a lot of people

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probably living in single family areas
living in suburbia says, oh my gosh

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, I could never think of myself living
in that type of environment but all

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the different features they want
privacy uh cultural facilities. Closeness

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to retail, facilities closest to
libraries closest to city services and

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that all can provided in that
particular environment. And that's what

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paolo Soleri is proposing. And his
concepts that have been developing at

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Argos santi in an oncology, the
integration of working and living and

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recreational such that all of these
things become a very natural part of

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everyday living. It's not something
you have to take a child to see to do

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or rather something he or she
experiences in normal everyday life.

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Colleges offer a vision of a not only
feasible but desirable urban life,

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which would be of great benefit to our
planet. And in words, young people

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have a major role to play. And since
we are moving toward 10 billions of

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people, we better think what that
might mean for a for a for a culture

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which is based on the private home,
The American dream, we find out

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immediately. That's that's a
catastrophe.

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I think 10 years from now, I want
people to say, but the real opportunity

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was there that the effort was made

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that not everything worked, but we
learned a lot and are able to live

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together better as a result of our
participation in this project. I know

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that paolo Soleri knows nothing is the
final answer, but this is probably

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the boldest experiment in urban living
on the planet today. And I'd like

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to just say that we gave it a good
shot.

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Mm hmm, mm hmm, mm hmm. Really? Mm
hmm.