Arcology

A discipline resulting from a fusion architecture and ecology which also signifies concrete structures, namely total cities embraced within one frame. Such cities, or arcologies, are based on the idea of implosion or reintegration of the scattered and often dissociated parts of the same organism into one homogeneous, compact, coordinated system. Their fundamental novelty lies in the normative conception of an architectural system. The rational order of arcologies follows not from the cohesion and self-consistency of these structures but from the moral order on which they are based and which they serve.