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    • “Brownfield” Prototype
    • 15 Minute (Bike Ride) Cities
    • A world without Wheelie Bins
    • Cruise ship comparison
    • Eco-Activists & Influencers
    • Elons Ago and Far Away – Musk ‘n Mars (semi-satire)
    • Real change would be a new model city
    • MaD Bank is Bankrupt
    • ONE PROTOTYPE will silence the sceptics..!
    • The coming property market crash – you have been warned..!
    • OA-City host countries would benefit
    • The Smartest Smart-city
    • Nobody is gonna steal such an original idea..!
    • Tourism Potential
    • UKRAINE CRISIS
    • Hotels save energy, time, and waste..
  • MOTIVE (9)
    • 2D sprawl cities – obsolete as a laundry mangle
    • Commuting – a Crime against Time..!  
    • Reclaiming the Moral High Ground
    • Mad Cars Disease
    • The Prosperity Predicament
    • Climate Change – a leftist plot..?
    • “The Housing Crisis”
    • Why focus on England..? (Draft)
    • Memo to Al Gore
      • An Inconvenient Truth?
  • CARMAGEDDON (10)
    • *Smaller Smarter Spaces
    • Better Public Transport
    • Do we really need cars..?
    • Electric Vehicles Pollute too..! (edit)
    • Guardianista agonising about car ownership
    • MAD CARS DISEASE
    • Moron Mad Cars Disease
    • SPRAWLing CARcinogenic OBeCities
    • SUV means “Stupid Un-necessary Vehicle” (stub)
    • Can there be Life after Cars..?
  • OBeCITIES (9)
    • A Tale of Two Cities
    • City Hate List
    • Densification for Dummies..!
    • Obesity and OBeCities – is there a link..?
    • SOD Cities – Sprawling Obese Dystopias
    • Death by Sprawl
    • Sprawl = City Cancer
    • Time Pollution
    • Why I hate OB-cities
  • OAeCITIES (10)
    • 3D Cities laugh at 3D Printing..!
    • 3rd Millennium Cities
    • Cities as homes “writ large”
    • City Wish List
    • Civilisational game-changer
    • INSIDE look
    • Islands in the Land
    • Simple Solution to Sprawl
    • a New Civilisation..?
    • Not a new idea..?
  • ARCOLOGY (9)
    • Alt-Erlaa, an Austrian Arcology, almost..
    • Eco Celebs OBLIVIOUS to arcologies
    • Impossibly Gigantic Buildings*
    • Les Espaces d’Abraxas (stub)
    • More Pyramidal Propaganda (draft)
    • Paolo Soleri & Arcosanti
    • Paolo Soleri Quotes
    • Pyramidal Arcology (copied from Pinterest)
    • Pyramids – the Shape of Cities to Come..?
  • ECOLOGY (19)
    • Earthships (stub)
    • End the Vandemic
    • Finessing the impact of Climate Change
    • Global Warming Timeline
    • Grand Green Delusions
    • Greenfields, Greyfields, Brownfields
    • Waste Heat Wasted
    • Imagination Laughs at Insulation
    • The Pollution Solution..!
    • Retro-fitting – a Rubbish Solution, literally…
    • McCloud Cuckoo Land
    • Time Pollution
    • Passive air-conditioning
    • Food Waste
    • De-cluttering
    • Pyramids of Pinewood..?
    • WMMCC – White Man Made Climate Change
    • Rainwater Harvesting
    • Re-cycling schemes are rubbish..!
  • ECONOMICS (15)
    • @”Economic Growth” – do we really need it..?
    • We don’t need “Growth” – we need “De-growth” (stub)
    • Buy or Rent..? The Debate that Never Was..!
    • Universal Basic Income (stub)
    • The “Housing Ladder” Obsession
    • “Working” from Home
    • Wages & Living costs
    • Would “De-Growth” be better than forever “Growth”?”
    • Build it, and they will PAY to come and see it..!
    • Commuting is “Time Pollution”
    • Taxi Drivers – who needs them..?
    • Death of the “High Street”
    • Eating Out saves money, mess and energy
    • MaD Bank is Bankrupt
    • Perfect places to re-locate enterprises
    • Small states are simply the best..!
  • ENERGY (12)
    • AC vs DC
    • District Heating – another no-brainer
    • Energy Storage*
    • Geothermal Energy
    • Heat Pump Hype
    • Micro Nuclear..?
    • OA-City homes save energy
    • Poo Power (stub)
    • Pyramid Power that really works..!
      • Solar Windows
    • Wind Turbines
      • Building-integrated Wind Turbine
    • Wind-farms – do we really need them..?
    • EEC – Europe’s Energy Crisis (draft)
  • ESTHETICS (10)
    • @ Portmeirion
    • OA-Cities will inspire awe
    • Panoramic Views for all…
      • Patios and panoramas
    • Parks ‘n Pyramids
    • Poundbury has no Pound Shops
    • Skyscrapers are Stupid
    • Sylvan Cities
    • Why a Pyramid..?
    • Why not a Dome..?
    • Manmade scenery is simply the best..! Better than all the rest..!
  • COMMUNITY (7)
    • @Pensioners Paradise
    • Birds of a Feather (1)
    • Birds of a Feather (2)
    • Canine Companion City
    • CAP – Community Assistance Pledge
    • Collaborative Communities
    • No Politicians, No Police, No Problems..!
  • SOCIETY (13)
    • @ Neighbour wars
    • A coming dark age..?
    • Cameron’s stillborn “Big Society”
    • Can the Birth Dearth be reversed?
    • Crime and Banishment
    • Critical Race Theory
    • Holiday at Home?
    • Moral Dilemma for Lefties..?
    • Progressive “Education” – Left, Right, Left, Left, Left….
    • Sleepover Schools
    • Social Engineering…?
    • Starting Anew
    • The anti-racist witch-hunt must go on, and on, and on…
  • DIMocracy (12)
    • Catalyst for democratic reform..?
    • Diversity that works (draft)
    • Counting Sheeple in the Left Field..!
    • Contribution
    • Cutting the OMOV Gordion Knot
    • Democracy stifles freedom
    • Democracy as it should be
    • DIMocracy – the worst form of government..?
    • DIMocracy quotes
    • Is Democracy a Religion..?
    • Tories in the left field..?
    • Vote for Monarchy (its better than democracy..!)
  • POSSIBILITIES (12)
    • Education Reformation
    • Euthanasia Cities
    • Hail the Prince..!
    • Heathrow Airport site potential
    • Hong Kong’s by the hundred..?
    • My Kind of Town (its not chicago)
    • New Free Cities
    • Seceding from the welfare state
    • Semigration & “Brexit Cities”
    • Subterranean Farming
    • The Wrong Stuff – Dysgenics by Default
    • The Right Stuff – who doesn’t want it..?
  • PRACTICALITIES (11)
    • @Density made desirable
    • *Known Unknowns – Building Costs & Financing Speculations
    • Goods deliveries
    • Optimum size & population (incomplete)
    • Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)
    • Right of Admission
    • US-style “co-operative” apartment buildings
    • Will “they” allow it..?
    • Would Oasis Cities be affordable?
    • Community Cars
      • Car sharing and parking
  • WHERE..? (9)
    • Territorial Trading
    • Ukraine – opportunity in adversity..?
    • Which countries might allow Oasis-Cities on its territory..?
    • Why Bulgaria..?
    • Why NOT China..?
    • Why NOT Dubai..?
    • Why Paraguay..?
    • Why Singapore..?
    • Why England…?
  • VISIONS (12)
    • “The Line”, Saudi Arabia
    • Arcosanti – Soleri’s swan-song
    • Biosphere 2
    • Floating cities
    • Masdar, Abu Dhabi
    • ORANIA – South Africa’s all-white township
    • Pyramid Pics
    • Songdo “Smart City” Korea
    • White Elephants
    • DELTAPOLIS – the smartest “Smart-City”
    • The Venus Project
    • UTOPIA..? Show me yours and I’ll show you mine..!
  • CRITICISM (11)
    • “Forced” labour..?
    • Full of Nazi ideas..?!
    • If pyramids are a good idea, why are they so rare..?
    • Its a Crazy Idea
    • Its an old idea..!
    • Too costly to build..?
    • Human Hives..?
    • Unaffordable..?
    • is Global Warming leftist NWO propaganda..?
    • Tempting Terrorist Targets..?
    • Other objections
  • PRO’s ‘n CON’s (2)
    • Disadvantages
    • OA-Cities vs OB-Cities – was there ever a more unequal contest..?
  • CIVILISATION (5)
    • Civilisation re-invented
    • Civilisation’s life-rafts
    • The Past is a Future Country
    • Civilisation is DYING for Oasis Cities (1)
    • Civilisation is DYING for Oasis Cities (2)
  • SPECULATIONS (8)
    • A habitable Venus..?
    • Could Space Exploration be RACIST..?
    • Elons Ago and Far Away – Musk ‘n Mars.
    • Was Noah’s Ark a Pyramid..?
    • In the year 2525…
    • Ancient Pyramids as homage to a lost civilisation..?
    • Was the Tower of Babel intended to be a pyramid-city..?
    • Pyramids On Mars..?
  • PRIVATE
    • SUNDRY (5)
      • #Utopia/Dystopia
      • Media comments retorts
      • Random musings
      • Collaboration
      • Terminology
    • Publicity
      • Movers & Shakers
      • Publishers Agents in UK
      • “Sunrise” Video Intro
      • Book Structure
        • PART 1 – MOTIVATION
        • PART 2 – CONCEPT
        • PART 3 – ECOLOGY & ECONOMY
        • PART 4 – COMMUNITY & SOCIETY
        • PART 5 – PRACTICALITIES
        • PART 7 – CRITICISM & OPPOSITION
        • PART 8 – WHO, WHERE, WHY..?
        • PART 9 – EXTRA STUFF
      • QUOTES
        • Political quotes
        • Selected QUOTES
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  • Home
  • THE BRIEF (16)
    • “Brownfield” Prototype
    • 15 Minute (Bike Ride) Cities
    • A world without Wheelie Bins
    • Cruise ship comparison
    • Eco-Activists & Influencers
    • Elons Ago and Far Away – Musk ‘n Mars (semi-satire)
    • Real change would be a new model city
    • MaD Bank is Bankrupt
    • ONE PROTOTYPE will silence the sceptics..!
    • The coming property market crash – you have been warned..!
    • OA-City host countries would benefit
    • The Smartest Smart-city
    • Nobody is gonna steal such an original idea..!
    • Tourism Potential
    • UKRAINE CRISIS
    • Hotels save energy, time, and waste..
  • MOTIVE (9)
    • 2D sprawl cities – obsolete as a laundry mangle
    • Commuting – a Crime against Time..!  
    • Reclaiming the Moral High Ground
    • Mad Cars Disease
    • The Prosperity Predicament
    • Climate Change – a leftist plot..?
    • “The Housing Crisis”
    • Why focus on England..? (Draft)
    • Memo to Al Gore
      • An Inconvenient Truth?
  • CARMAGEDDON (10)
    • *Smaller Smarter Spaces
    • Better Public Transport
    • Do we really need cars..?
    • Electric Vehicles Pollute too..! (edit)
    • Guardianista agonising about car ownership
    • MAD CARS DISEASE
    • Moron Mad Cars Disease
    • SPRAWLing CARcinogenic OBeCities
    • SUV means “Stupid Un-necessary Vehicle” (stub)
    • Can there be Life after Cars..?
  • OBeCITIES (9)
    • A Tale of Two Cities
    • City Hate List
    • Densification for Dummies..!
    • Obesity and OBeCities – is there a link..?
    • SOD Cities – Sprawling Obese Dystopias
    • Death by Sprawl
    • Sprawl = City Cancer
    • Time Pollution
    • Why I hate OB-cities
  • OAeCITIES (10)
    • 3D Cities laugh at 3D Printing..!
    • 3rd Millennium Cities
    • Cities as homes “writ large”
    • City Wish List
    • Civilisational game-changer
    • INSIDE look
    • Islands in the Land
    • Simple Solution to Sprawl
    • a New Civilisation..?
    • Not a new idea..?
  • ARCOLOGY (9)
    • Alt-Erlaa, an Austrian Arcology, almost..
    • Eco Celebs OBLIVIOUS to arcologies
    • Impossibly Gigantic Buildings*
    • Les Espaces d’Abraxas (stub)
    • More Pyramidal Propaganda (draft)
    • Paolo Soleri & Arcosanti
    • Paolo Soleri Quotes
    • Pyramidal Arcology (copied from Pinterest)
    • Pyramids – the Shape of Cities to Come..?
  • ECOLOGY (19)
    • Earthships (stub)
    • End the Vandemic
    • Finessing the impact of Climate Change
    • Global Warming Timeline
    • Grand Green Delusions
    • Greenfields, Greyfields, Brownfields
    • Waste Heat Wasted
    • Imagination Laughs at Insulation
    • The Pollution Solution..!
    • Retro-fitting – a Rubbish Solution, literally…
    • McCloud Cuckoo Land
    • Time Pollution
    • Passive air-conditioning
    • Food Waste
    • De-cluttering
    • Pyramids of Pinewood..?
    • WMMCC – White Man Made Climate Change
    • Rainwater Harvesting
    • Re-cycling schemes are rubbish..!
  • ECONOMICS (15)
    • @”Economic Growth” – do we really need it..?
    • We don’t need “Growth” – we need “De-growth” (stub)
    • Buy or Rent..? The Debate that Never Was..!
    • Universal Basic Income (stub)
    • The “Housing Ladder” Obsession
    • “Working” from Home
    • Wages & Living costs
    • Would “De-Growth” be better than forever “Growth”?”
    • Build it, and they will PAY to come and see it..!
    • Commuting is “Time Pollution”
    • Taxi Drivers – who needs them..?
    • Death of the “High Street”
    • Eating Out saves money, mess and energy
    • MaD Bank is Bankrupt
    • Perfect places to re-locate enterprises
    • Small states are simply the best..!
  • ENERGY (12)
    • AC vs DC
    • District Heating – another no-brainer
    • Energy Storage*
    • Geothermal Energy
    • Heat Pump Hype
    • Micro Nuclear..?
    • OA-City homes save energy
    • Poo Power (stub)
    • Pyramid Power that really works..!
      • Solar Windows
    • Wind Turbines
      • Building-integrated Wind Turbine
    • Wind-farms – do we really need them..?
    • EEC – Europe’s Energy Crisis (draft)
  • ESTHETICS (10)
    • @ Portmeirion
    • OA-Cities will inspire awe
    • Panoramic Views for all…
      • Patios and panoramas
    • Parks ‘n Pyramids
    • Poundbury has no Pound Shops
    • Skyscrapers are Stupid
    • Sylvan Cities
    • Why a Pyramid..?
    • Why not a Dome..?
    • Manmade scenery is simply the best..! Better than all the rest..!
  • COMMUNITY (7)
    • @Pensioners Paradise
    • Birds of a Feather (1)
    • Birds of a Feather (2)
    • Canine Companion City
    • CAP – Community Assistance Pledge
    • Collaborative Communities
    • No Politicians, No Police, No Problems..!
  • SOCIETY (13)
    • @ Neighbour wars
    • A coming dark age..?
    • Cameron’s stillborn “Big Society”
    • Can the Birth Dearth be reversed?
    • Crime and Banishment
    • Critical Race Theory
    • Holiday at Home?
    • Moral Dilemma for Lefties..?
    • Progressive “Education” – Left, Right, Left, Left, Left….
    • Sleepover Schools
    • Social Engineering…?
    • Starting Anew
    • The anti-racist witch-hunt must go on, and on, and on…
  • DIMocracy (12)
    • Catalyst for democratic reform..?
    • Diversity that works (draft)
    • Counting Sheeple in the Left Field..!
    • Contribution
    • Cutting the OMOV Gordion Knot
    • Democracy stifles freedom
    • Democracy as it should be
    • DIMocracy – the worst form of government..?
    • DIMocracy quotes
    • Is Democracy a Religion..?
    • Tories in the left field..?
    • Vote for Monarchy (its better than democracy..!)
  • POSSIBILITIES (12)
    • Education Reformation
    • Euthanasia Cities
    • Hail the Prince..!
    • Heathrow Airport site potential
    • Hong Kong’s by the hundred..?
    • My Kind of Town (its not chicago)
    • New Free Cities
    • Seceding from the welfare state
    • Semigration & “Brexit Cities”
    • Subterranean Farming
    • The Wrong Stuff – Dysgenics by Default
    • The Right Stuff – who doesn’t want it..?
  • PRACTICALITIES (11)
    • @Density made desirable
    • *Known Unknowns – Building Costs & Financing Speculations
    • Goods deliveries
    • Optimum size & population (incomplete)
    • Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)
    • Right of Admission
    • US-style “co-operative” apartment buildings
    • Will “they” allow it..?
    • Would Oasis Cities be affordable?
    • Community Cars
      • Car sharing and parking
  • WHERE..? (9)
    • Territorial Trading
    • Ukraine – opportunity in adversity..?
    • Which countries might allow Oasis-Cities on its territory..?
    • Why Bulgaria..?
    • Why NOT China..?
    • Why NOT Dubai..?
    • Why Paraguay..?
    • Why Singapore..?
    • Why England…?
  • VISIONS (12)
    • “The Line”, Saudi Arabia
    • Arcosanti – Soleri’s swan-song
    • Biosphere 2
    • Floating cities
    • Masdar, Abu Dhabi
    • ORANIA – South Africa’s all-white township
    • Pyramid Pics
    • Songdo “Smart City” Korea
    • White Elephants
    • DELTAPOLIS – the smartest “Smart-City”
    • The Venus Project
    • UTOPIA..? Show me yours and I’ll show you mine..!
  • CRITICISM (11)
    • “Forced” labour..?
    • Full of Nazi ideas..?!
    • If pyramids are a good idea, why are they so rare..?
    • Its a Crazy Idea
    • Its an old idea..!
    • Too costly to build..?
    • Human Hives..?
    • Unaffordable..?
    • is Global Warming leftist NWO propaganda..?
    • Tempting Terrorist Targets..?
    • Other objections
  • PRO’s ‘n CON’s (2)
    • Disadvantages
    • OA-Cities vs OB-Cities – was there ever a more unequal contest..?
  • CIVILISATION (5)
    • Civilisation re-invented
    • Civilisation’s life-rafts
    • The Past is a Future Country
    • Civilisation is DYING for Oasis Cities (1)
    • Civilisation is DYING for Oasis Cities (2)
  • SPECULATIONS (8)
    • A habitable Venus..?
    • Could Space Exploration be RACIST..?
    • Elons Ago and Far Away – Musk ‘n Mars.
    • Was Noah’s Ark a Pyramid..?
    • In the year 2525…
    • Ancient Pyramids as homage to a lost civilisation..?
    • Was the Tower of Babel intended to be a pyramid-city..?
    • Pyramids On Mars..?
  • PRIVATE
    • SUNDRY (5)
      • #Utopia/Dystopia
      • Media comments retorts
      • Random musings
      • Collaboration
      • Terminology
    • Publicity
      • Movers & Shakers
      • Publishers Agents in UK
      • “Sunrise” Video Intro
      • Book Structure
        • PART 1 – MOTIVATION
        • PART 2 – CONCEPT
        • PART 3 – ECOLOGY & ECONOMY
        • PART 4 – COMMUNITY & SOCIETY
        • PART 5 – PRACTICALITIES
        • PART 7 – CRITICISM & OPPOSITION
        • PART 8 – WHO, WHERE, WHY..?
        • PART 9 – EXTRA STUFF
      • QUOTES
        • Political quotes
        • Selected QUOTES

Les Espaces d’Abraxas (stub)

 

Les Espaces d’Abraxas – Wikipedia

The Concept

I conceived the idea of Oasis-Cities in the early 1990's, around the same time as the clarion call to "save the planet" (from "Global Warming" aka "Climate Change") was becoming the major issue that it is today.  People in rich countries - whose high energy consumption and "throwaway" consumer lifestyles were largely responsible for excessive carbon emissions - were being exhorted to moderate their behaviour for the sake of the planet. 

Although the idea of a "city under a single roof" had been proposed before - most notably by Paolo Soleri (qv) who coined the term "Arcology" (Architecture & Ecology) -  all previous ideas had significant drawbacks.  1) they were unrealistically gargantuan - 2) they were not economically feasible - 3) they were not visually attractive - 4) they were super-densely populated and maybe not attractive places in which to live - and finally 5) they were not self-sufficient in energy, since solar and wind-power technology were then in their infancy.   

Oasis-Cities neatly remedies all the above drawbacks and, as I further explored the concept, it dawned on me that the eco-benefits of OA-Cities - important as the are - are just the tip of the iceberg of many other potential benefits which are discussed on this site. I was convinced that Oasis-Cities is a comprehensive solution to ALL our eco-woes and that - all it needed to get the ball rolling was to get influential people excited about the possibilities, not least of which was the money-making opportunities which would come from launching THE BIGGEST BUILDING BOOM IN HISTORY..!   So I would have bet my house that, by the start of the new millennium at the latest, the first OA-cities would be up and running with many more under construction or in the pipeline.           

If, back in the early '90's, some cynical smart-arse had mocked my idea as "crazy" and said "nothing like your idea is gonna happen for decades, if ever..!", I would have called that person a CLOSED-MINDED CURMUDGEON..!!!

 

And yet here we are..., here we are 35 years later, and still nobody - not even eco-influencers like Al Gore, Greta, Bill Gates, or the green movement generally is even thinking of such an idea..!

 

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