{"id":7047,"date":"2018-07-08T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=7047"},"modified":"2018-07-10T20:34:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T20:34:03","slug":"robert-stark-interviews-richard-register-about-ecocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=7047","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark interviews Richard Register about Ecocities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Richard Register is a theorist in ecology and urban design, the author of several books<\/a> on the topic of ecologically sustainable cities, and founder and President of\u00a0Ecocity World<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Richard’s concept of an Ecocity
\nPaolo Soleri’s<\/a>\u00a0concept of an Arcology and his project\u00a0Arcosanti\u00a0<\/a>in Arizona
\nThe\u00a0Ecosa Institute<\/a>\u00a0which is doing what Soleri intended on a smaller scale
\nAncient examples of the Arcology go back to Ur in Mesopotamia and \u00c7atalh\u00f6y\u00fck in Turkey
\nThe city as a complex living organism
\nHorizontal vs. three dimensional cities
\nImplementing an ecocity on a large scale as an Ecotropolis
\nWhy density is more ecologically sustainable
\nEcocity Zoning
\nThe goal of creating a car free city
\nThe use of bridges between structures
\nJohn C. Portman’s Embarcadero Center in San Francisco which has aspects of an Arcology
\nExterior glass elevators
\nRichard’s book\u00a0Ecocity Berkeley<\/a>\u00a0and NIMBY imposed barriers to change in Berkeley
\nOpening up the creek systems in urban areas
\nCreating Ecocity village cores in the suburbs and how to retrofit aesthetically pleasing suburbs(ex. Santa Barbara, Marin County, and wealthy East Bay suburbs)
\nReducing the foot print of cities and suburbs and opening up new land to agriculture and wilderness
\nRichard’s illustrations and the importance of aesthetics in urbanism
\nNew Urbanism as a step in the right direction but too rigid in height and density
\nRichard’s trip to the Galapagos Islands and observations of how architecture coexists with nature
\nEcocities in China
\nRobert’s observation that Las Vegas despite being an ecological catastrophe has many aspects of the Arcology<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Richard-Register-Ecocities.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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                  Richard Register is a theorist in ecology and urban design, the author of several books on the topic of ecologically sustainable cities, and founder and President of Ecocity World. Topics: Richard’s concept of an Ecocity Paolo Soleri’s concept of an Arcology and his project Arcosanti in Arizona The Ecosa Institute which is … Continue reading Robert Stark interviews Richard Register about Ecocities<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[542,623,907,457,669,712,6,198,554,459,1036,929,4,548,1190,255,449,276,877,718,448,270,855,632,411,1082,782,1066,1189,527,289,627,555,676,677,857,681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-architecture","category-arcology","category-art","category-asia","category-berkeley","category-california","category-china","category-cities","category-culture","category-eco-cities","category-energy","category-environment","category-futurism","category-galapagos-islands","category-global-warming","category-historic-preservation","category-history","category-john-c-portman-jr","category-lafayette-ca","category-las-vegas","category-los-angeles","category-nature","category-new-urbanism","category-new-york","category-oakland","category-orinda-ca","category-phoenix","category-richard-register","category-san-francisco","category-santa-barbara","category-skyscrapers","category-suburbia","category-urbanism","category-utopia","category-wilderness","category-zoning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7047"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7083,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions\/7083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}