Lean Linear City: Arterial Arcology - Softcover

Paolo Soleri; Scott Riley; Youngsoo Kim; Adam Nordfors; Charles Anderson; Tomiaki Tamura; Jeff Stein (introduction)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1883340071 ISBN 13: 9781883340070

Publisher: Cosanti Press, 2012

Synopsis

This compact book (7" x 7", 196 pages, fully illustrated in color) is the first full-length publication to present architect Paolo Soleri s Lean Linear City concept, a traveling city that aims to optimize logistics to the extent feasible, in part by being fully integrated with its vital transportation corridor. Soleri, who is known for his theory of arcology (architecture + ecology), proposes this arterial arcology on analogy with how arteries support the essential life-functions in an organism. Lean Linear City features pedestrian-based communities oriented around linear local and regional transportation systems, fostering quality of life through urban mobility and access, while minimizing consumption of land and material resources of all kinds, including energy resources.
Lean Linear City: Arterial Arcology outlines Soleri s comprehensive approach to defining and controlling growth patterns of existing and future cities to produce more sustainable, equitable, and robust urban forms. The book graphically illustrates how Lean Linear s logistics are designed to cohere, enhancing the urban experience, minimizing waste, taking advantage of passive energy opportunities, and defining smart boundaries in relation to surrounding agricultural and natural lands. As urban planners face the key issues of the twenty-first century ever expanding populations, rapid urbanization, limited global resources, increased demand for food production, and protection of a fragile environment Soleri proposes that logistically defined arterial cities may prove to be a viable option for sustainable urban development.

About this title

About the Author:

Paolo Soleri Paolo Soleri is an Italian-born architect, founder of the Cosanti Foundation and Arcosanti in Arizona, USA. A graduate of Turin Polytechnic and student of Frank Lloyd Wright, among other awards he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale in 2000, and National Design Award for Lifetime achievement from the Smithsonian s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York in 2006. His work has been exhibited at international institutions and he is the author of numerous books.
Youngsoo Kim completed a joint master and bachelor degree in architecture with a concentration in urban design at the University of Arizona in 2008. After graduation, he was invited by Soleri to continue working in the Arcosanti Planning Department, overseeing projects such as the Lean Linear City design proposal. Kim s professional intention is to translate Soleri's Lean Linear model into practical applications for urban planning in developing countries that are experiencing rapid urbanization.
Charles Anderson is a landscape architect with over twenty years of experience in projects ranging from neighborhood parks to New York City s American Museum of Natural History. He has a strong background in public process and has completed many community projects. Anderson has a specific interest in expressionistic landscape restoration and in the development of urban ecologies. He earned his bachelor degree in landscape architecture from Washington State University and his master degree in landscape architecture from Harvard University s Graduate School of Design in 1985.
Adam Nordfors received his Journeyman Farmers Status from Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association in 1997 before joining the Arcosanti project as land-use manager and agricultural workshop instructor. He has since gone on to study Geographic Analysis at Ryerson University and Landscape Architecture at Arizona State University, where he received his landscape architecture degree. Currently he teaches design studios and a course on alternative construction methods at ASU and works as a sustainable systems designer.
Scott Riley is a habitat coordinator for the Arcosanti project. He assisted the Cosanti Foundation on occasional projects beginning in 1973, and joined the staff in 2000. His work for Cosanti Foundation has extended to database design, project oversight, and habitat coordination.
Tomiaki Tamura joined the Cosanti Foundation in 1976, where he worked as a project coordinator, overseeing planning and construction of Arcosanti. As the director of the Soleri Archives, he has produced numerous exhibitions and publications. He graduated from Arizona State University with a master's degree in environmental planning.
Jeff Stein, AIA, award winning architect and writer, is president of the Cosanti Foundation. A longtime Soleri collaborator, Stein is both a graduate and former dean of the Boston Architectural College. He previously taught at architecture schools in the US and in Zurich, Switzerland, and Montpellier, France. He has authored numerous articles on architecture and energy issues and lectures widely about Arcosanti and urban design.
Lissa McCullough has worked with Paolo Soleri as his editor since 2005. She is an idependent scholar with a master s degree from Harvard University and a doctorate from the University of Chicago. She is now based in Los Angeles, having previously taught in the fi eld of religious studies at New ork University, Hanover College, and Muhlenberg College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cosanti Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1883340071
• ISBN 13: 9781883340070
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196
• Editor: Youngsoo Kim, Lissa McCullough
• Illustrator: Youngsoo Kim, Adam Nordfors, Charles Anderson, Tomiaki Tamura