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This article is fascinating, and it has a great quote about the 75-mile "landscraper": The concept carried echoes of an idea originated in the 1960s by Superst
by pavlov 4y ago
This article is fascinating, and it has a great quote about the 75-mile "landscraper":
The concept carried echoes of an idea originated in the 1960s by Superstudio, an Italian architectural collective, for a structure so enormous it would wrap around the entire planet. This “Continuous Monument” was never a real building proposal; it was intended as a critique of excessive urbanization and of the modernist megaprojects then in vogue. One of Superstudio’s last surviving members, when asked about the Line by the New York Times, dryly noted that “seeing the dystopias of your own imagination being created is not the best thing you could wish for.”
- adhesive_wombat 4y agoReminds me of Felka's Great Wall of Mars from Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space.
- marssaxman 4y agoOr perhaps the Girdlecity, from Iain M. Banks' "The Hydrogen Sonata".
- dillondoyle 4y agoThen make have mckinsey make a graph of aesthetics ranking from dystopian feeling to utopian. Probably cost $5mm to make that slideshow I personally like the 'swim to school' roads. Some people have too much power and money. Spending to try and make desalination economically viable and other green tech is cool. Vanity projects that forcibly remove (potentially murdered) residents, wasting said green energy on fake ski resorts, etc are not.