MINNESOTA EXPERIMENTAL CITY: THE NEWEST NEW TOWN
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The experimental city is planned as a totally new town-with the accent on new. Unlike most of the nation's other new communities, it will not be an instant suburb of another city. Instead, MXC will nestle in the wilderness as a self-contained entity, serving as a living laboratory for the most advanced ideas in urban planning, environment and technology. Planners expect that 130,000 jobs could be created in MXC, mainly in research-oriented industries like environmental technology and communications...
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In their place will be "megastructures" complete with their
own housing units, streets and transit systems.
While
ali this
might sound like a futurist vision, the truth is that the planners
have looked hack as often as forward.
Their stress is on old
fashioned
values- "good food, good friends, and a good rela
tionship
with the earth ", Pinney sa ys.
That means a return to
windmills for sorne electrical power, to cottage industries for
sorne employment, to a feeling
of community through the inti
mate clustering
of neighborhoods.
From Time Magazine, 1974.
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1) In what way will MXC be different from other new towns?
2) What does the architect mean by "a rural-urban balance"?
3) To what problems in present towns does this city pretend
to give a solution?
4)
Is this solution satisfactory according to y ou?
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"MXC will look ...
" jusqu'à " ...
driverless
minibuses".
1) In what way will MXC be different from other new towns?
Because it will be built according to the advanced ideas of
modem research about urban planning, environment, techno
logy
and psychology, MXC will be the "newest new town".
Its location in the wilderness and not in the suburbia of
another city will be in itself revolutionary.
The problems of
energy and pollution will also be easily met.
And to provide
more pleasurable conditions
of !ife, the center of the city will
be roofed over.
In no other city will the citizens be able
to live without overcoats ali year around.
As factories will
be inplanted in residential districts, people will benefit from.
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