Date: March 19th, 2008

The ultimate future city: Arthur C. Clarke’s Diaspar

19 March, 2008 (09:21) | Cities, Ecosystems, Housing, Science fiction, Theory | 4 comments

 
 
Author’s note: Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the last of science fiction’s original Big Three, died yesterday at the age of 90.  Three weeks ago, I was in Colombo, where Clarke lived, and in the very brief period when I wasn’t working with the Slum Dwellers International folks, several colleagues and I strolled to dinner at [...]