Arcology - a hybrid of architecture and ecology, is essentially a mega city which packs a ginormous population into one hyperstructure. A group of ambitious designers has taken their looming pyramidal arcology and placed it smack dab on the Mississippi River as a proposal for the rebuild of New Orleans. This 30 million square foot beast-building with an array of green features is aptly named NOAH, and is meant to house 40,000 mostly human residents...more