For years, smart and creative thinkers have imagined what the perfect place to live would look like. Usually, this quest includes searching for the right balance of open space, living quarters, play areas, and work environs. Planners have been thinking about these issues for the past 200 years and they are still very much thinking about them today. The development still exists today. This eternal search is as much an environmental issue as it is a quality of life issue.
Proper planning can reduce automobile use and can enhance reliance on solar energy.
Recycling and safe solid waste disposal, as well as efficient sanitary waste treatment, can alo be planned for in a new community. An Arizona model community, called the Arcosanti project, represents an ongoing highly cerbral effort to address these issues. It is a prototype. If successful, it can be replicated may times over. In 1970, the Cosanti Foundation began building Arcosanti.