Creating Sustainable Futures for Southwestern Cities: The ProtoCity Approach in the Ciudad Juarez, Mexico/El Paso, Texas Metroplex - Design with the Desert: Conservation and Sustainable Development - page 563

Designing for a biophilic neocortex

Neocortex layer

Reptilian layer

Cycle
of life

Cycle
of life

Env't. Env't.

System
limits

System
limits

Global support cycles Building level event cycles

The hydrologic cycle

Osprey Humans

Large fish

Small fish

Phytoplankton

Zooplankton Invertebrates

Mineral
recycle

Fuel/power/
heart and new
bioproducts

Agricultural
residues

Studge
use

Lands

Mineral
recycle

Wood products
and energy or
food/feed
chemicals

FIGURE 31.20
In order to bring the brain into synchronization with the cycles of nature we miniaturize the air, water, and food
cycles that occur at the global-regional level so that human can make contact with each cycle phase.