arcology

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  • The arcology was finally razed, its denizens rehoused in plush new purpose-built suburbs. —  Hamilton, Peter F. - [Void 01] - The Dreaming Void
  • And this provincial town is very set in its ways, manacled to the past by the arcology which dominates the local mind-set much as it does the landscape. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
  • Imelda pays the traffic no attention as she hurries along to the café where she has arranged to meet her lover; like the arcology, the buzz of vehicles is a mere background fixture. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
  • It is a brief journey to the base of the arcology, which now lies deep in the monstrosity's umbra, then the capsule rises up the side until it reaches the seventy-fifth floor and edges its way through a fissure in the outer wall. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
  • At one time, in the decades after the arcology was built, the apartments up here on the upper levels were all packed to capacity, and the central malls buzzed with activity all day long. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
 

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