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C

Wind generator sub-ribbon

C

D

D Photovoltaic sub-ribbon

H

B F

Atrium Orchards apron

E

Energy apron

H

Local
transit

Water stream

A A

Main structure

G Maglev trains

FIGURE 30.7
Cross-section of Linear City.

FIGURE 30.8
Linear living: atrium space and walkways provide community interaction.

formulating and formalizing the container, then allowing insertion of the content.) The
process can be capricious and short lived, or it can be coherently honed for the long term.
Most of the time human practicality imposes its bias and reality is thrown out, with con-
sequences that are easy to see, feel—and pay for.

30.6 Conclusion
Lean society is more evolutionarily coherent than hyperconsumption society. It is a realistic
proposition that could embrace have and have-not alike. That is why a true concern for
desirability—even at feasibility's expense—is gaining an urgency never known before, if
and where survival's constraints marginalize the human condition. Now we are reaching