Comments on: The ultimate future city: Arthur C. Clarke’s Diaspar http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2008/03/the-ultimate-future-city-arthur-c-clarkes-diaspar.html Affordable Housing Institue Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:03:17 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: visit now http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2008/03/the-ultimate-future-city-arthur-c-clarkes-diaspar.html/comment-page-1#comment-38200 visit now Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:49:48 +0000 http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2008/03/the-ultimate-future-city-arthur-c-clarkes-diaspar.html#comment-38200 The stuff on this web site is really witty and cool wise The stuff on this web site is really witty and cool wise

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]]> By: Stimpson Jaycat http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2008/03/the-ultimate-future-city-arthur-c-clarkes-diaspar.html/comment-page-1#comment-33442 Stimpson Jaycat Sun, 17 May 2009 04:24:41 +0000 http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2008/03/the-ultimate-future-city-arthur-c-clarkes-diaspar.html#comment-33442 I stumbled on this essay while trying to do a search for "Diaspar at Night". I'm envious that you got to see Sir. Arthur before he left the planet for good. I learned of his death on my birthday, March 18th, late in the afternoon...one of my worst Birthday's ever...having my boyhood writing hero die on the day of my birth...but leading to a lot of "Memorial Reading" as I had already been reading more Clarke than usual, having seen his own Birthday Greeting from '07. The two different versions of Diaspar have haunted my imagination for over three decades, and I was already reviewing those versions as a friends homage to THE NIGHT LAND was about to come out in print...and I had yet to read about The Last Redoubt. Interesting points about the "Eternal City" you've made, which at some point I may have to expand on. SJ I stumbled on this essay while trying to do a search for “Diaspar at Night”. I’m envious that you got to see Sir. Arthur before he left the planet for good. I learned of his death on my birthday, March 18th, late in the afternoon…one of my worst Birthday’s ever…having my boyhood writing hero die on the day of my birth…but leading to a lot of “Memorial Reading” as I had already been reading more Clarke than usual, having seen his own Birthday Greeting from ‘07.
The two different versions of Diaspar have haunted my imagination for over three decades, and I was already reviewing those versions as a friends homage to THE NIGHT LAND was about to come out in print…and I had yet to read about The Last Redoubt.
Interesting points about the “Eternal City” you’ve made, which at some point I may have to expand on.

SJ

]]> By: Vinod Moonesinghe http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2008/03/the-ultimate-future-city-arthur-c-clarkes-diaspar.html/comment-page-1#comment-5479 Vinod Moonesinghe Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:57:48 +0000 http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2008/03/the-ultimate-future-city-arthur-c-clarkes-diaspar.html#comment-5479 I am surprised that you do not mention Cyril Kornbluth's and Frederick Pohl's 'Gladiator -at-law'. It deals with the slumisation of commercial housing developments: 'Belle Reve Estates' becomes the 'Belly Rave' slum neighbourhood - mainly through people being unable to pay their mortgages or afford repairs. The alternative is the mass-produced high-tech plastic bubble house - the 'GML Home' ; which, however is rented to the large corporations for their employees - a modern version of tied cottages for the corporate debt peons. A humourous but nevertheless biting examination of the suburban slum problem - before it appeared. I am surprised that you do not mention Cyril Kornbluth’s and Frederick Pohl’s ‘Gladiator -at-law’. It deals with the slumisation of commercial housing developments: ‘Belle Reve Estates’ becomes the ‘Belly Rave’ slum neighbourhood – mainly through people being unable to pay their mortgages or afford repairs. The alternative is the mass-produced high-tech plastic bubble house – the ‘GML Home’ ; which, however is rented to the large corporations for their employees – a modern version of tied cottages for the corporate debt peons. A humourous but nevertheless biting examination of the suburban slum problem – before it appeared.

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