Blueprint for Reconstruction

by Vincent Frank Bedogne

Overview

Inspired by a vision of soaring towers, high-speed transit cars, pristine skies, and blossoming gardens, we move beyond today's automobile-based urban model and embrace a design where the freedom of the individual is paramount and the human energy that defines city life flows unimpeded within an urban matrix engineered to allow for its highest expression. Author Vincent Frank Bedogne drafts a blueprint for what humanity's Evolution of Consciousness and adoption of Economics of Fulfillment make it possible to achieve-perfection of life on earth. We draw a plan for reconstruction of the earth's urban and ecological infrastructure: the city of tomorrow, the countryside of tomorrow, how we will get around and communicate. We embrace a new environmentalism, explore future sources of energy, reveal the solution to humanity's present energy crisis, and look at how we will build to withstand the climatic rigors imposed by a biosphere in evolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781556359262
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	04/14/2010
Series:	Threshold to Meaning , #3
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Author of the Threshold to Meaning series and coauthor of Commonsense Guide to Current Affairs, Vincent Frank Bedogne has an academic background that ranges from business, accounting, and economics to physics, engineering, and physical anthropology. He has been a student of Teilhardian philosophy for nearly forty years.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Preface xi

Perfection 1

Part 1 The Landscape

2 Pre-Reflective Landscape 13

3 Reflective Landscape 25

4 Roundness of the Earth 38

Part 2 Blueprint for Tomorrow

5 Design Criteria 57

6 The Countryside 69

7 The City 79

Part 3 Implementation

8 Working Drawing 93

9 Energy 101

10 Climate 115

Part 4 Perfection

11 Seed of Genesis 131

12 A Life 140

13 Fulfillment 147

14 Mission for Completion 152

Bibliography 155