Signal A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / October 11, 2026

The Ecological Future Is Being Drawn as a Luxury Resort

Solarpunk renderings promise architecture's green future and keep arriving as glossy, organic, frictionless places that look like somewhere you would pay to stay. Aaron Betsky reads them against Robida's flying houses, Callenbach's Ecotopia, Wakanda and the coal works at Zollverein, and argues that steampunk had the more honest model all along: visibly salvaged, visibly imperfect, built out of what the last century left behind rather than rendered as if nothing had been used up.

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The Ecological Future Is Being Drawn as a Luxury Resort
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