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Arcology
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Arcology is a concept of architectural design in which an ideal city is contained within one immense vertical structure, thereby reducing wasteful consumption and preserving the natural surroundings. A community designed with the principles of arcology is itself called an arcology and typically has the following attributes: High population density. Constructed as a single building. Self-contained in regards to energy, amenities and waste reclamation. Imagine a skyscraper. Every five or so floors, there is an entire floor dedicated to the inner workings of the floors above it. This is called a deck. The deck level houses all power lines, plumbing mains and anything else that needs to work properly for life to be livable with all the modern conveniences. Now make the skyscraper cover the ground area of a small city or a large town and realize that the decks number in the triple digits. There's the ideal description in a nutshell. The name of the game here is self-sufficiency. The second attribute above links to the Closed Circle page because the materials required to keep the systems of the building going cannot leave. These processes include food production, waste recycling and environmental refinement (air conditioning and such). People can, in theory, come and go as they please, but the idea is that they don't need to leave. Energy, however, is generally allowed to enter from the outside in the form of sunlight, wind power and such. It's worth mentioning that some of the truly huge mega cities in fiction are made up of "arcoplexes", or residentially, commercially, or industrially specialized arcologies that link to each other to create a unified, futuristic ecosystem. After some application of Fridge Logic, City Planet settings almost have to qualify as gigantic systems of arcoplexes; otherwise they wouldn't function. This trope tends towards either extreme hard or soft sci-fi, since the full explanation is pretty complex. It's either going to be explained in detail, or it's going to be handwaved. Depending on who we ask, we may or may not currently have the technology required to make an arcology work in the real world. What is certain is that we don't yet have the political pressure and economy of scale to build one with any reasonable payoff; with current population densities, such a project would be Awesome, but Impractical, thus a fully functional arcology in fiction often requires some Applied Phlebotinum until Technology Marches On comes into effect. Arcologies appear most often in speculative fiction that tend toward the cynical end of the spectrum, since they are essentially futuristic paradises with a bit of science to back up their justified existence and functionality, and Utopia never holds up under scrutiny. They often appear in video games set After the End or 20 Minutes into the Future, Cyberpunk stories, and most often feature heavily in stories that rely on an environmental or class warfare aesop. Because they are so insular and answer all of humanity's material needs, arcologies are a great setting for a Wretched Hive masquerading as a Shining City, if not just playing the Layered Metropolis disgustingly straight. If the arcology is actually a Shining City, and a sympathetic character hails from it, it's probably going to be destroyed anyway. Broken arcologies tend to be the breeding ground for all sorts of 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 Shining City in the middle of a Wretched Hive, the arcology's walls forming a neat divide for Urban Segregation. If the arcology has space engines, it's a Generation Ship. Shares blurred lines with the Mega City, which need only be huge, but sometimes an example of one is an example of both, especially the arcoplex variation. Hive City is the supertrope; all arcologies are hive cities by definition, as they consist of either a single colossal building or several overlaid and interconnected ones, but hive cities do not need to be self-reliant like arcologies are. Contrast Hub City, which offers everything you need but a place to call home. Citadel Cities that also qualify as arcologies function extremely well under siege conditions, since dwindling supplies are no longer an issue. Compare and contrast with Layered Metropolis, City on the Water, City in a Bottle, Underground City, Skyscraper City, and Domed Hometown. Even though most of the tropes above are sub-tropes of the Mega City, technically the Arcology is not, since one can exist inside a city without actually being one, itself, even though it usually works out that way. Lastly, see Shining City, which is what an arcology is trying to be from an ecological standpoint, whether it succeeds or not. |
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Fine Structure: The chapter "Crushed Underground" follows a semi-underground arcology built by Mitchell Calrus to shelter the human population after the Hot Wars. | |
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Ghostrunner is set in Dharma Tower, a city in the form of a single massive tower and the last refuge of humanity after an apocalypse. | |
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The Cyber Dragons Trilogy: Huge self-sufficient cities have replaced most of the United States' former ones with other smaller ones being demolished to provide materials to construct them. New Los Angeles is where the majority of the stories take place with mile-tall skyscrapers despite the fault lines and it being explicitly stated to be one of twenty in the former United States. | |
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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 so depressing that the residents voted to commit mass suicide. In the story's timeframe, Annika is the CEO of the B.O.R.G Megacorporation, whose headquarters is a cubical structure five kilometers to a side, which houses 100,000 staff members and their families in a self-sustaining city-building that contains everything needed for life — living quarters, schools, supermarkets, "babytoriums", "relaxeries", "love-a-trons" and the like. Most people never leave it outside of a yearly vacation leave. |
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SimCity (2013): The main game has the option to build an arcology in a Great Works site, an area in the inter-city region. It's monumentally expensive, both in cash and raw resources (the idea is that all the region's cities will help in its construction), and differs from the classic arcology by requiring external sources of power and water, but offers large bonuses to business and tourism in the region. It also completely eliminates the need for residential zones which makes sense as EVERYONE is living inside the arcology. The Expansion Pack, Cities of Tomorrow, features MegaTowers, smaller arcologies that can be built within the city itself. Highly modular, they can be made self-sufficient with regard to power, water, sewage treatment etc. depending on how they are developed. They can also be connected to one another via skybridges. The expansion also features a Launch Arcology in a Call-Back to 2000. |
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The Night's Dawn Trilogy describes futuristic Earth cities that are explicitly referred to as arcologies. Considering the detail and scientific realism of the series, the descriptions of the cities' inner workings is pretty much spot-on. However, many of the arcologies are not a single building, but simply cities which were covered in large, overlaid domes to protect them from the armada storms raging across the surface of the planet. Newer arcologies are described as being much more monolithic. | |
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SimCity: SimCity 2000 features four different types of arcologies,◊ each one invented fifty years after the last. 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 sewage and pollution literally oozing down the grungy outer walls of its obelisk-like design. Combined with the giant television screen built at the base, this arcology and its 55,000 industrious citizens has a distinct 80s dystopian cyberpunk theme going for it. Going in the complete opposite direction from its predecessor, the Forest Arcology, invented in 2050, is a series of habitat rings built on top of each other, and is named for its attractive forest setting on the top level. Throughout the structure, citizens utilize recycling, operate ecologically sound industries, and maintain a rich verbal heritage that replaces television and radio. Unfortunately, the youth of Forest Arcos are bored silly and roam out into your city where they stare mindlessly at soap operas and sports programs displayed in the electronics department at local malls. Most of its 30,000 residents are tree-hugging hippies. Invented in 2100 is the Darco — slang for "De-Urbanized Arcological Construct". Originally designed by the twisted genius of Dante McCallavre, the artist/architect proclaimed it a reactionary response to the rigid, archetypal arcologies of his day. No one really knows what this means, and many engineers are frankly baffled at how the thing stays standing. Inside, the ill-lit corridors twist into odd, meandering corkscrews that mysteriously turn back on themselves. Non-Euclidean would be the best way to describe it. There are rumors that a strange sub-species of man inhabits the air ducts. The Darco can attract up to 45,000 brave souls. "Launch" Arcologies, invented in 2150, were nicknamed for their resemblance to modern orbital launchers. The resemblance is not entirely coincidental, as sophisticated methods of biological support were necessary to oxygenate and feed the thousands of inhabitants. While never tested, the manufacturers claim the occupants could stay self-contained for up to two decades. The sides of the arcology are equipped with vernier jets to stabilize the structure during storms and earthquakes. A small nuclear facility independently powers the building; spare energy is stored by electrolyzing water into two tanks for oxygen and hydrogen. The "Launch Arco" holds 65,000 inhabitants, but are also the most expensive to build. Build 450 of these in your city and the Exodus will occur. All of the launch arcos will explode, demolishing themselves while a message appears on your screen: "Your launch arcos have departed into space to find new worlds. You have been compensated for the construction." Note: building 450 of them will take up roughly 90% of your entire city's area, meaning you will need to destroy most of what you've already built just to accommodate them. This is, however, considered the unofficial "Win Condition" in a technically unwinnable, unending game. SimCity (2013): The main game has the option to build an arcology in a Great Works site, an area in the inter-city region. It's monumentally expensive, both in cash and raw resources (the idea is that all the region's cities will help in its construction), and differs from the classic arcology by requiring external sources of power and water, but offers large bonuses to business and tourism in the region. It also completely eliminates the need for residential zones which makes sense as EVERYONE is living inside the arcology. The Expansion Pack, Cities of Tomorrow, features MegaTowers, smaller arcologies that can be built within the city itself. Highly modular, they can be made self-sufficient with regard to power, water, sewage treatment etc. depending on how they are developed. They can also be connected to one another via skybridges. The expansion also features a Launch Arcology in a Call-Back to 2000. SimTower: The end goal of the game is to turn your tower into a completely self-sustaining vertical city, containing living areas, business offices, shopping malls, food production, hospitals, a chapel and everything else needed for its inhabitants to be able to lead their lives entirely within it without ever needing to leave. |
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Final Fantasy VII: Midgar is Shinra Electric Power Company's greatest achievement: 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, which doesn't actually exist. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV: Ul'dah could be imagined as a walled mosque, but scaled up and out by a large degree to support a city within it. The only places that see sky are ares in the periphery. Isghard is a large keep/cathedral built on top of a narrow mountain. Though depictions between the concept art and the trailer differ in-game, where there's apparently enough flat space to build entire neighborhoods with. Eulmore in the First's Kholusia region was built to be the last standing city, self contained in a spire, with those living there expecting to live out their last days in an apparent paradise. |
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Metamor City is a Layered Metropolis centered around an arcology known as The Citadel, which was expanded from the old Metamor Keep whose Genius Loci still has control over at least part of it, aside from her duties as monarch of the Empire of Metamor. | |
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Dream Park, co-written with Steven Barnes: The title game in The California Voodoo Game takes place inside the MIMIC (Meacham Incorporated Mojave Industrial Community), which was built during the 1990s. It was so badly damaged by the Quake that it had to be abandoned. It was later acquired by Dream Park and used as the basis for the Barsoom Project — the terraforming of Mars. | |
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The Ascent takes place entirely within an arcology, of the tapered spire variety. Owned by the titular Ascent Group, the vast majority of it's population are indentured servants ("indents") often trapped in perpetual debt to their employer. It is a very literal Layered Metropolis, with different tiers of the structure specialized to different aspects and different classes of population. The lowest levels near the base given over to power generation and waste reclamation facilities, nicknamed "the deepStink" for it's odor and populated mostly by monotask robots and mutated ferals who breed in the fetid recesses. Above that are the "lowHab" region where most of the menial residents live in crowded slums made of pre-fabricated habitation modules haphazardly stacked atop each other and bolted to the arcology's superstructure. These lowHabbers handle most of the maintenance, industry, and hydroponic crop production required to keep the arcology functioning and profitable. Above that is the "highStreet" level where the more skilled labor and middle management resides, along with the arcology's better quality leisure and entertainment spaces. Finally, at the very top is "the Pinnacle" where the executives from the Ascent Group live and work. | |
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Sprawl Trilogy: Neuromancer: Arcologies are mentioned as part of the backdrop, although the story doesn't involve any of them. Count Zero partially takes place in an arcology that was originally intended to be self-sufficient, with wind-farms on the roof and greenhouses and fish farms on the upper levels. But apparently things changed and it became a Wretched Hive like the rest of the Boston-Atlanta Sprawl. |
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Overlord (2012): One light novel briefly mentions the European Arcology Wars involving neo-nazis that happened twenty before the series started. The clothes of Pandora's Actor, the guardian of Nazarick's treasury, were inspired by their elite guards. Another theorises that The Great Tomb of Nazarick with its various bars and shops inside it might have been designed with an arcology in mind. |
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SimTower: The end goal of the game is to turn your tower into a completely self-sustaining vertical city, containing living areas, business offices, shopping malls, food production, hospitals, a chapel and everything else needed for its inhabitants to be able to lead their lives entirely within it without ever needing to leave. | |
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Neuromancer: Arcologies are mentioned as part of the backdrop, although the story doesn't involve any of them. | |
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Patlabor: The Movie: The Ark is a City on the Water many stories tall that is being built in the middle of Tokyo Bay, and is central to the plot. The Big Bad sees it and the larger urban renewal project as symbolic of Japan losing sight of its historical spirituality and devaluing humanity in the pursuit of economic development, and sets out to force it to be torn down. | |
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Hive Mind (2016) 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. | |
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The Stormlight Archive: Urithiru is a legendary hundred-story city carved into the side of a mountain, meant to permanently house thousands of the Knights Radiant. It's described as each floor having massive balconies with self-sufficient gardens growing from them. It's worth noting that most of Urithiru's support mechanisms no longer function by the time characters rediscover it, and they are having little success figuring out how to get it working again. | |
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Escape Velocity: In EV Nova, the Auroran capital planets each have at least one large arcology where their inhabitants live, due largely to the planet itself being too polluted to support life anymore. In fact, almost all Auroran colonies have at least one arcology, even the ones that presumably aren't quite so polluted (as they export food grown outside the arcologies). | |
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Destiny 2: Titan has several large abandoned arcologies floating on the methane sea, one of which 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 Hive in the present only a fool (or a Guardian) would dare to enter it. | |
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Traveller: The 15th Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society issue, in the article "Azun", describes the title planet has having a population of 26 billion, which has forced them to put most of the population in arcologies. The GURPS version's "Planetary Survey" series includes the amusement park world Kamsii, which houses its 61 million employees in arcologies so they don't disturb the carefully cultivated and sanitized "wilderness". |
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Fallout: The Vaults were nominally designed to be underground arcologies capable of sustaining a population through the lingering effects of the nuke fight that was World War III. In reality, they were a source of human lab rats to test space colonization (there were Vaults meant to operate exactly as advertised, but that was because the people behind the testing having had enough scientific rigour to realise they needed a control group). | |
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The Worthing Saga: One story goes into some detail about the creation of modular arcoplexes designed to be expanded upon as the population grew, and link to one another if two should meet. Despite their creator's protests that "huge tracts of unspoiled land" would be set aside, after hundreds or thousands of years, eventually all of them met, creating a City Planet (and utterly destroying the natural environment, of course). | |
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Mass Effect: It's mentioned that Earth is entering a Golden Age and the wealthier cities are becoming Shining Cities filled with arcologies... the cities in wealthy countries at least. Poorer regions are still overpopulated, polluted slums. | |
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The Night Land has an early version of this in the Great Redoubt (more than seven miles high, holds millions of people) and the Lesser Redoubt (more than a mile high). They're both sealed off from the outside world by necessity and are completely self-sufficient, relying on multiple stories of underground farms for food. | |
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Transhuman Space: Arcologies replacing cities is mentioned as one result of cheap cybershell labor. India has a few "bioarks" made from living materials. | |
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Count Zero partially takes place in an arcology that was originally intended to be self-sufficient, with wind-farms on the roof and greenhouses and fish farms on the upper levels. But apparently things changed and it became a Wretched Hive like the rest of the Boston-Atlanta Sprawl. | |
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Dystopia: The tutorial map has you enter an abandoned, underground arcology to retrieve sensitive software. Your CO will remark on some parts like a room having an artificial sky and another case where a tree has grown through solid concrete. | |
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Book of Revelation: New Jerusalem is a massive (as in, it would be the seventh 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 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. | |
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Tales from the Afternow is a warning from the future about how civilization eventually migrated to the arcologies to escape the toxic wasteland resulting from nuclear war. The arcologies certainly fit the Wretched Hive masquerading as Shining City descriptor. | |
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Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy VII: Midgar is Shinra Electric Power Company's greatest achievement: 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, which doesn't actually exist. Final Fantasy XIII: The floating world of Cocoon is self-sustaining, entirely enclosed mini-world, albeit one created and run by physical gods instead of designed by scientific techniques. Final Fantasy XIV: Ul'dah could be imagined as a walled mosque, but scaled up and out by a large degree to support a city within it. The only places that see sky are ares in the periphery. Isghard is a large keep/cathedral built on top of a narrow mountain. Though depictions between the concept art and the trailer differ in-game, where there's apparently enough flat space to build entire neighborhoods with. Eulmore in the First's Kholusia region was built to be the last standing city, self contained in a spire, with those living there expecting to live out their last days in an apparent paradise. |
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Future Boy Conan: Triangle Tower, together with the underground shelter it's built on top of, was meant to provide a self-sustaining fortress for tens of thousands of people, able to recycle waste into food but also having an indoor park with an artificial sun. Industria was formed inside it After the End, but without access to the satellite that would provide it with solar power, they had to fall back on a finite nuclear stockpile. Over two decades, its population massively dwindled, most of the Tower's functionality went unused, residents were forced to move into a surrounding shanty town, and it became reliant on materials scavenged from foreign lands. It's finally brought to full power only a week before the whole island sunk into the ocean, and purely as a means to evacuate its residents. | |
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Dredd: Most of the action takes place in a residential arcology within an arcoplex. Even the car chase opening through the streets of Mega City One shows multiple levels of automotive arteries all over the city, which is a hallmark of the arcoplex concept. The buildings are almost completely self-sufficient. They have self-defense systems that allow them to withstand a nuclear blast, only the people inside can choose whether any communications can go inside or out, and the main villain of the movie has been operating in secrecy to the outside world for so long that she has every last citizen who lives in the complex under her thumb. As Judge Dredd progresses his way up to the top, he ends up traveling through shops, factories, people's homes, and classrooms. Even the distance from the top floor to ground level becomes a minor plot point. | |
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Shadowrun offers several examples: The Renraku Arcology (officially the Self-Contained Industrial Residential Environment), owned by the Renraku Corporation, is around 300 floors of alternating worker housing, manufacturing areas and waste processing and food production facilities, topped with luxury housing for the elite management. 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: 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. 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. The German megacorporation Proteus has built a few arkoblocks in the middle of the contaminated North Sea for unknown purposes. There are some floating arcologies scattered across the Pacific. |
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CthulhuTech arcologies are all over the place, but most of them aren't described in much detail. They are a necessity, though, since the local Starfish Aliens and the multiple Religion of Evil cults roaming the countryside have essentially made small towns tantamount to suicide. One common feature, however, is that New Earth Government arcologies are highly defensible fortresses. | |
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Judge Dredd: The various mega-cities are composed of multiple arcologies called city blocks. A city block is a single building that houses tens of thousands of people and has various decks dedicated to things like maintenance, public utilities, public services like education and employment, entertainment, healthcare, law enforcement facilities, etc. Appropriate to the comic book's cynical tone, this living arrangement is a magnet for trouble, with many storylines involving when something in a city block goes wrong and the entire population of it goes crazy. There's even a phenomenon called block wars, in which one city block will beef with another one and it explodes into actual warfare. | |
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Skyscraper: The titular building, the Pearl, is a gigantic top-of-the-line super-scraper with its own integrated wind turbines to provide power independently, as well as its own residential section complete with park and mall. Will and his family, as part of Sawyer's work as a security consultant for the building, are staying there as the (unofficial) first family living inside, since the building's residential floors aren't officially open yet. | |
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Andromeda: Of the many space stations present, one of them is actually called the Arkology, which is anchored to an asteroid, in orbit around a planet. True to the idea, it is a hippy's ideal home, being significantly older than most of the featured stations on the show, complete with substandard technology. It also happens to be the largest, and looks quite steampunk. | |
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Resonance of Fate: Bazel is a massive Clock Punk tower housing several cities on top of itself. It provides food, water,and electricity, as well as Life Energy, to its inhabitants, who are so dependent on this that if their specific Soul Jar burns out prematurely, they drop dead as a rock. It also works to clean the land of an apocalyptic amount of pollution. | |
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Star Ruler 2: One of the Big Dumb Objects you can discover is the Arcology upgrade, which permanently increases planetary population capacity by ten billion. | |
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Last and First Men: Several of the future human species build arcologies, some of which are extremely large (both tall — several miles in some cases — and wide, with the bases of some exceeding twenty miles across). The concentration of population density in the arcologies allows vast swathes of land to be left as pristine wilderness parks, despite a high total population. | |
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Star Carrier: Earth has several arcologies, all of which were "grown" by using nanites on decommissioned landfills and the like. They usually take the form of Star Scrapers. | |
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Stellaris: The Arcology Project ascension perk allows one to convert planets covered with city districts into City Planets with Arcology districts. They can hold a tremendously large population (useful if your running out of housing space late game), but at the cost of the planet's natural resources being permanently removed. | |
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The GURPS version's "Planetary Survey" series includes the amusement park world Kamsii, which houses its 61 million employees in arcologies so they don't disturb the carefully cultivated and sanitized "wilderness". | |
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Shangri-La: Atlas is a superstructure built to shelter the lucky from the fallout of the runaway greenhouse effect, but some can move into it if they win the lottery. But it takes more than just technology to keep the structure from crumbling. | |
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Final Fantasy XIII: The floating world of Cocoon is self-sustaining, entirely enclosed mini-world, albeit one created and run by physical gods instead of designed by scientific techniques. | |
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Blue Planet: Xanadu, built by Anasi Systems on Cyprus as a retirement community for Incorporate senior management, the independently ultra-wealthy, and tens of millions of staff to meet their every need. The arcology's health care plan includes age-extending genetic redesigns, Long John therapy, and cryogenic slumber on demand if immortality gets boring, and Anasi is scouting locations for an underwater sister arcology on Poseidon. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: The Millennium Gate from "11:59" was planned to function quite similar to one. The main problem presented in the episode is that it's construction was putting the city it was being built in almost completely out of business, and Janeway's ancestor found herself in the middle of the pro/anti-Gate debate. | |
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The Lupin III movie Farewell to Nostradamus has the Earth Building, the HQ of the Douglas Foundation. Standing at 3,000 ft tall with 200 stories, the lower half of the building has all the features of a major city, including roads, a monorail, a 30-story all-purpose sports stadium big enough to host the Olympics, and an indoor snowy hill (in the event of a Winter Olympics). | |
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Surviving Mars has an arcology building that you can research, but aside from the name and being really tall it doesn't fit the description. It's just another type of housing complex; colonists still need to visit other buildings in the Domed Hometown for their jobs and recreation. | |
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Starsnatcher: Most of the early plot takes place in a mountain-sized alien arcology. Its shape resembles a black funnel at the bottom and a cone near the top. Its surface is covered in black plants and solar panels to harvest energy from the red dwarf star in its sky. While it is heavily stratified (with the rich living at the top and the poor near the bottom), even the poor have decent standards of living, thanks to a post-scarcity economy. | |
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