Astropolis

An Astropolis (from the Greek for city of stars) can be any of several things in different contexts. These include:

• An idealised future civilisation, as in Eugene Jolas' Succession in Astropolis.
• The Astropolis Music Festival is a music festival dedicated to techno music and held in Brittany.
• Astropolis the High Technology Development Program in Sodankylä, Lapland.
• Various kinds of fictional populated structures in architecture, futurology, and science fiction.
  • Astropolis, a space station proposed by Dr. Krafft Arnold Ehricke.
  • "Astropolis: The First Space Resort", in Playboy, November, 1968
  • The orbiting arcology Asteromo proposed by architect Paolo Soleri is sometimes called an Astropolis. ^[1]
• A science fiction cycle of Sean Williams

References

1. ^ Arcology: The City in the Image of Man by Paolo Soleri 1969:Cambridge, Massachusetts MIT Press Asteromo Pages 116-118