SOLERI'S CITIES:
ARCHITECTURE FOR PLANET EARTH AND BEYOND
A 30-minute video of the documentary originally directed and written by David Mayne for airing on pulic television in Arizona.

$19.95

" Cities around the planet are in crisis. The rapid growth of cities and the increasing expansion of suburbia have produced polluted urban environments whose inhabitants are increasingly alienated from each other. As a possible solution to these problems, architect Paolo Soleri proposes that we must begin to build an entirely new type of city - the Arcology , which merges ecological principles into its architecture. Soleri believes that all cities are living organisms, and that in order to be sustainable, cities must be designed in accordance with nature. This intriguing portrait of Soleri explores the possible impact of the architect's revolutionary ideas. Soleri, a former student of Frank Lloyd Wright, has designed and is attempting to build a prototype city of the future that goes beyond even the wildest imaginings of Wright. Will Soleri's cities be the future habitats for humanity, or will they remain as the blueprints of a visionary 20th-century designer?"