Walden 3-D is a network of minds, computers, and interactive
hypermedia data bases. This multi-dimensional global network integrates
information; simulating, demonstrating, and documenting potential outcomes and real-time
dynamics of the human decision-making process. The resulting design process combines
proven socially accepted urban-planning strategies with information management
technologies of the present and the future. Results document how humans, borrowing from
Buckminster Fuller, "can live within the earth's available cosmic-energy savings account."
The planned end product is the development of cost-effective and
ecologically sound three-dimensional cities. These prototypical 21st-century
communities will provide the highest and best land use, juxtaposing a large building mass
with nature to benefit both, while maximizing utilization of finite resources. The complexes
will use state-of-the-art concepts in energy conservation, waste treatment and recycling.
Living units will "plug" into an intelligent network providing residents with environmental
control and encouraging information-based decision-making.
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