I had Soleri's book as a youngster in the 70s, and I was quite influenced by his ideas. I even taught a class to my fellow middle-school students called "City"

I had Soleri's book as a youngster in the 70s, and I was quite influenced by his ideas. I even taught a class to my fellow middle-school students called "City" where we built a model of a single structure city, to be built in the desert. What can I say, it was the 70s. My Mom has lived out in Arizona for many years, and as I was getting ready to go visit her for the first time a few years ago, I realized that Arcosanti was just down the road from her house. She had never heard of it, despite being a bit of a counter-cultural type herself. We took the tour... it was a little shabby, but quite interesting. Of course it is just a pale shadow of the dreams of that wild guy. But it is a working experiment, and has lasted. I was pleased to see a poster advertising that young women were invited to be sketched nude by Paolo and they could keep some of the drawings. Pretty nice setup for the old guy.