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Can Zoo Design Apply to People?

Posted by: Tim Halbur

30 June 2009 - 2:00pm

Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG looks at plans for a zoo in France made up of simulated environments, and wonders why we don't build simulated environments for humans.

Manaugh: "why do we only build zoos like this? Why not suburbs or college campuses? You mold landforms out of reinforced concrete, and you install artificial waterfalls and fake rivers, and you grow rare orchids under the cover of geodesic domes. And then your grandkids can grow up in a savannah-themed suburb outside Orlando. The next town over, kids run around through giant fern trees, chasing parrots.
Perhaps themed biozones are the future of suburban design?"

Full Story: Simulated Environments for Animals
Source: BLDBLOG, June 30, 2009
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Why we don't build simulated environments for humans.

Submitted by Ken Firestone on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 04:43.

"...why we don't build simulated environments for humans."

I thought that's what suburban shopping malls are.

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