Astropolis
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An Astropolis (from the Greek for city of stars) can be any of several things in different contexts. These include:
- An idealised future civilisation, as in Eugene Jolas' Succession in Astropolis.
- The Astropolis Music Festival is a music festival dedicated to techno music and held in Brittany.
- Astropolis the High Technology Development Program in Sodankylä, Lapland.
- Various kinds of fictional populated structures in architecture, futurology, and science fiction.
- Astropolis, a space station proposed by Dr. Krafft Arnold Ehricke.
- "Astropolis: The First Space Resort", in Playboy, November, 1968
- The orbiting arcology Asteromo proposed by architect Paolo Soleri is sometimes called an Astropolis. [1]
- A science fiction cycle of Sean Williams
[edit] References
- ^ Arcology: The City in the Image of Man by Paolo Soleri 1969:Cambridge, Massachusetts MIT Press Asteromo Pages 116-118
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