Waltropolis optimizes the distribution of goods to its population of 100,000 people. Eleven kilometres (7 miles) long by 1.6 kilometres (1 mile) wide and 90 metres (300 feet) high, the 10 levels of Waltropolis locates the retail, civic, educational, and cultural program within the efficiency of a box, now free of conventional development patterns that limit the big-box to a stand-alone entity. Repetition of the same unit occurs on separate sites. Residential tract housing is located on the roof deck, the seven square miles optimized to provide the suburban-style living Americans have come to expect.
What a fantastically morose vision of the future. This is Arcosanti gone awry, the American Dream manifested in soulless bomb-shelter practicality, the stuff of nightmares. Brilliant.
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