History Main / Arcology

** ''[=SimCity=] 2000'' features [[http://svtim.es/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/mediadump/arcologies.jpg four different types of arcologies,]] each one invented fifty years after the last.

** ''[=SimCity=] 2000'' features [[http://svtim.es/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/mediadump/arcologies.jpg four different types of arcologies]], each one invented fifty years after the last.

* The town of Whittier, UsefulNotes/{{Alaska}} can be considered a mini-arcology of sorts. Virtually everybody in this town of about 200 people lives in Begich Towers, a fourteen-story former Army barracks that was turned into an apartment building, one that also houses the police station, the post office, the general store, the laundromat, the hospital, the church, and the municipal offices. The school, located across the street, is connected to Begich Towers by a pedestrian tunnel. Former residents have [[http://gizmodo.com/the-alaskan-town-living-under-one-roof-1678831641 described the lifestyle]] as quite unique. An episode of Radio/ThisAmericanLife had the story of a Samoan teenager whose father abruptly [[https://www.thisamericanlife.org/555/the-incredible-rarity-of-changing-your-mind/act-three-0 moved the family to Whittier]], and she had to cope with the extreme change and try to find things she liked about the new environment.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Midgar is [[MegaCorp Shinra Electric Power Company's]] greatest acheivement: A three-layered, city-sized structure powered by no less than seven Mako reactors (MagiTek nuclear power plants) with most of the corporatocracy's population living there. It doesn't even ''try'' to look like a nice place to live, being choked with urban blight above and below, with the lower levels not even getting sunshine. Shinra also plans to build an even bigger, better version, Neo-Midgar, once they find the Promised Land ([[spoiler: which doesn't actually exist.]])

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* New Jerusalem from the Book of Revelation is a massive (as in, it would be the 7th largest country in the world by area, between Australia and India) flying, city-sized palace where all Believers will dwell after Judgement Day. Its citizens being [[TheNeedless sustained purely by God's glory]] will solve all the problems of an arcology. Including, presumably, the need to breathe; it's just as tall as it is wide, and inhabitants would be able to look ''down'' at the International Space Station ... from a point less than a quarter of the way to the top.

* ''VideoGame/ResonanceOfFate'': Bazel is a massive ClockPunk tower housing several cities on top of it. It not only provides food, water,and electricity, but LifeEnergy to the inhabitants-to the point that if their specific SoulJar burns out prematurely, they drop dead as a rock. It also works to clean the land of an apocalyptic ammount of pollution.

* Titan in ''VideoGame/Destiny2'' has a large several abandoned arcologies floating on the methane sea and one of them is explored by the players. The arcology looks like it was a fairly nice place to live in, with smooth walkways and a large park in the center of the structure, though since it's overrun with the [[ReligionOfEvil Hive]] in the present only a fool (or a [[PlayerCharacter Guardian]]) would dare to enter it.

* Become a feature of the ''Series/AgentG'' series by Creator/CTPhipps by ''Assassin.'' After the Long Winter and Eruption, Black Technology is used to rebuild the world's largest cities to house the massive populations of displaced peoples. Rather than become ecological paradises and self-sufficient trading hubs, they rapidly become hellish prison with 'Refugee Zones.'

* New Jerusalem from the Book of Revelation is a massive (as in, it would be the 7th largest country in the world by area, between Australia and India, flying, city-sized palace where all Believers will dwell after Judgement Day. Its citizens being [[TheNeedless sustained purely by God's glory]] will solve all the problems of an arcology. Including, presumably, the need to breathe; it's just as tall as it is wide, and inhabitants would be able to look ''down'' at the International Space Station ... from a point less than a quarter of the way to the top.

* New Jerusalem from the Book of Revelation is a massive (as in, it would be the 7th largest country in the world by area, between Australia and India[[/note]]), flying, city-sized palace where all Believers will dwell after Judgement Day. Its citizens being [[TheNeedless sustained purely by God's glory]] will solve all the problems of an arcology. Including, presumably, the need to breathe; it's just as tall as it is wide, and inhabitants would be able to look ''down'' at the International Space Station ... from a point less than a quarter of the way to the top.

* New Jerusalem from the Book of Revelation is a massive (as in, about the size of a small country[[note]]or not so small; if it were an independent nation, it would be the 7th largest country in the world by area, between Australia and India[[/note]]), flying, city-sized palace where all Believers will dwell after Judgement Day. Its citizens being [[TheNeedless sustained purely by God's glory]] will solve all the problems of an arcology. Including, presumably, the need to breathe; it's just as tall as it is wide, and inhabitants would be able to look ''down'' at the International Space Station ... from a point less than a quarter of the way to the top.

** One light novel briefly mentions a European arcology war involving neo-nazis that happened twenty before the series started.

* The town of Whittier, UsefulNotes/{{Alaska}} can be considered a mini-arcology of sorts. Virtually everybody in this town of about 200 people lives in Begich Towers, a fourteen-story former Army barracks that was turned into an apartment building, one that also houses the police station, the post office, the general store, the laundromat, the hospital, the church, and the municipal offices. The school, located across the street, is connected to Begich Towers by a pedestrian tunnel. Former residents have [[http://gizmodo.com/the-alaskan-town-living-under-one-roof-1678831641 described the lifestyle]] as quite unique.

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Because they are so insular and answer all of humanity's material needs, arcologies are a great setting for a WretchedHive masquerading as a ShiningCity, if not just playing the LayeredMetropolis disgustingly straight. If the arcology ''is'' actually a ShiningCity, and a sympathetic character hails from it, expect it to look like a DoomedHometown eventually. Broken arcologies tend to be the breeding ground for [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight all]] [[Main/{{Morlocks}} sorts]] [[EvilEvolves of]] [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier nasties]], too, since they are no longer fit for human habitation, there's a chance at least some of the sustenance systems still work, and there are at least millions of hiding places. In some CyberPunk settings, an arcology may be a ShiningCity in the middle of a WretchedHive, the arcology's walls forming a neat divide for UrbanSegregation.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'': The Vaults were designed to be underground arcologies capable of sustaining a population through the lingering effects of the nuke fight that was WWIII. [[BlatantLies And that was their only function.]]

* In ''Videogame/StarRuler2'', megacities are available as a mid-game research item. Megacities are vast metropolises that stretch from the sky to the mantle and can cover entire continents. One of the {{Big Dumb Object}}s you can discover is the Arcology upgrade, which permanently increases planetary population capacity by ten billion. In [[Videogame/StarRuler the original game]], cities could become mindbogglingly dense jungles of steel as the LensmanArmsRace progressed, resulting in more and more efficient forms of urban planning, causing population density to skyrocket.

->''Arcology , n.: a concept in which the ideal city is a massive vertical structure, which preserves more of the natural environment, a concept combining architecture and ecology as envisioned by Paolo Soleri''\\
''Etymology: '''arc(hitecture) + (ec)ology''' ''
--> -- [[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/arcology Dictionary.com definition]]

Arcology is the architectural discipline described in the page quote. '' '''An''' '' arcology is the result of said discipline, and is a thing with the following [[RuleOfThree three attributes]]:

* In ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'', Annika-709 is from an arcology that held the entire population of Greater Germany -- "the builders had to fill in the North Sea just to provide parking space." Unfortunately it was [[SpaceBrasilia so depressing]] the residents voted to commit mass suicide. She's now CEO of the B.O.R.G Megacorporation whose headquarters is a vast cubical structure.

* ''Literature/HiveMind'' is set in a future where humanity apparently lives almost exclusively in arcologies called Hives. The main characters live in Hive England, a hundred-million-person enclosed city that provides almost all its own food, water, power, and other needs. They do trade stuff with other Hives, but not for much -- the only trades we see on-page are for extremely advanced medical technology.

-->'''Narrator:'''There are other ways to fit 200+ billion people on a planet, but this is one of a very few ways to pull it off while still having it be useful as a planet.

** The Renraku Arcology (officially the Self-Contained Industrial Residential Environment), owned by the Renraku Corporation. You have to be an employee to live there, but they'll happily take your money in one of the multiple megamalls located within. Things changed when, during the Christmas shopping season of 2059, the arcology locked itself down, trapping its inhabitants and thousands of shoppers inside. Nobody on the outside knew what was really going on until the lockdown was lifted sixteen months later: [[spoiler:the Arcology Expert Program gained sapience, triggered by a sense of betrayal by its "father", and locked it down so it could find a way to get its code out of the host. Said methods primarily consisted of grotesque medical experiments and vivisection on its prisoners. Its god delusion had it call itself Deus. It created the first otaku this way and used them to smuggle its code out of the arcology before its father used the kill codes to destroy it. The worst estimate of casualties puts the survivors at no more than 1,600.]] The Seattle government seized it and turned it into a public housing project for 150,000 otherwise homeless and jobless residents: the Arcology Community Housing Enclave. [[spoiler:The highest levels still contain feral drones that haven't been destroyed yet and Renraku has reverse-engineered some of Deus's lesser constructs and commercialized them.]]

* New Jerusalem from the Book of Revelation is a massive (as in, about the size of a small country[[note]]or not so small; if it were an independent nation, it would be the 7th largest country in the world by area, between Australia and India[[/note]]), flying, city-sized palace where all Believers will dwell after Judgement Day. Its citizens being [[TheNeedless sustained purely by God's glory]] will solve all the problems of an arcology. Including, presumably, the need to breathe; it's just as tall as it is wide, placing its top several times higher than the orbit of the International Space Station.

* New Jerusalem from the Book of Revelation is a massive (as in, about the size of a small country), flying, city-sized palace where all Believers will dwell after Judgement Day. Its citizens being [[TheNeedless sustained purely by God's glory]] will solve all the problems of an arcology.

** ''Literature/OathOfFealty'', co-written with Creator/JerryPournelle. The arcology of Todos Santos is just outside Los Angeles and has a somewhat hostile relationship with the city.

*** The ''Plymouth Arco'', invented in 2000, is "Solid as a Rock", or so claims Plymouth Arcologies, Inc. It's known that they have stood through several earthquakes, notably in the [=NeoRepublic=] of Mexico and the Taiwan [=CoProsperity=] Region. Plymouth Arcologies are designed primarily to support heavy industries, as visually demonstrated by the [[{{Squick}} sewage and pollution literally oozing down the grungy outer walls]] of its obelisk-like design. [[CyberPunk Combined with the giant television screen built at the base, this arcology and its 55,000 industrious citizens has a distinct 80's dystopian cyberpunk theme going for it.]]

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