ARCOLOGY

The Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid hyperstructure or megacity as featured on the Discovery Channel's Extreme Engineeringprograms

Arcology, a portmanteau of the words "architecture" and "ecology",^[1] is a set of architectural design principles aimed toward the design of enormous habitats (hyperstructures) of extremely high humanpopulation density. These largely hypothetical structures would contain a variety of residential, commercial, and agricultural facilities and minimize individual human environmental impact. They are often portrayed as self-contained or economically self-sufficient.

The concept has been primarily popularized, and the term itself coined, by architect Paolo Soleri, and appears commonly in science fiction./.../