Yeah.
Mm hmm.
It would be very hard to imagine any kind of civilization or cultural
development divorced by the phenomenon of the of the city because in a way
it's that environment that seems to be producing the the impulse in in
singular minds to come up with the new inventions, new applications of
things, new discoveries and eventually new creations. But if you if you
separate each mind and let them go into some kind of oblivion or some kind
of isolation and segregation, then it's very hard to think that very much
will happen. I think his idea of, you know, of the city and in many
respects, it's not that visionary, it's just about reality of what cities
have always had to be through time. And he's trying to bring us a way of
creating cities with our culture with our technology that's appropriate
city is like an organism. And and it's got to have, you know, it's got to
have a healthy heart, it's got to have a healthy liver and lungs and arms
and legs and that sort of thing. And you've got to have those components
and and the key that I think Solari is probably been at the, one of the
real forefront of trying to help define for us is is looking at the city
is kind of a sustainable organism and and what is it we need to take in in
order to in order to survive and be strong and what is it we don't need to
take it, what is it that we that we take in, it's harmful to us. And if we
can define those elements more accurately. And many of those things are
economic, economically driven, we can define those things and keep
ourselves. I think we've got a much greater opportunity for a sustainable
city that in which everybody prospers
and what goes for an organism goes for for life in general. So if you want
to be true true with with the nature of life, you have to remember that
the coming together is where life gets its own mm hmm reality. And the
distribution of life comes with death. And to me when you have a city
which tends to be pulled together and suddenly is breaking, breaking down
into a suburban sprawl, that means that the dying process a lot of people
probably living in single family areas living in suburbia says, oh my gosh
, I could never think of myself living in that type of environment but all
the different features they want privacy uh cultural facilities. Closeness
to retail, facilities closest to libraries closest to city services and
that all can provided in that particular environment. And that's what
paolo Soleri is proposing. And his concepts that have been developing at
Argos santi in an oncology, the integration of working and living and
recreational such that all of these things become a very natural part of
everyday living. It's not something you have to take a child to see to do
or rather something he or she experiences in normal everyday life.
Colleges offer a vision of a not only feasible but desirable urban life,
which would be of great benefit to our planet. And in words, young people
have a major role to play. And since we are moving toward 10 billions of
people, we better think what that might mean for a for a for a culture
which is based on the private home, The American dream, we find out
immediately. That's that's a catastrophe.
I think 10 years from now, I want people to say, but the real opportunity
was there that the effort was made
that not everything worked, but we learned a lot and are able to live
together better as a result of our participation in this project. I know
that paolo Soleri knows nothing is the final answer, but this is probably
the boldest experiment in urban living on the planet today. And I'd like
to just say that we gave it a good shot.
Mm hmm, mm hmm, mm hmm. Really? Mm hmm.