This is the 1st edition of the book. An extensive review of this book can be found in Eye Magazine volume 8, number 32. Rick Poyner reviews "Visionary Cities: The Arcology of Paolo Soleri" by Donald Wall in his essay "The Designer as Architect: The Book as Spectacle." Poyner writes, "Nearly thirty years ago, when Donald Wall created this extraordinary book about Italian architect Paolo Soleri, he uncannily projected a vision of 1990s typography in its most process-driven, radical form...Just to list a few of the book's most striking typographic features is to recall the mannerisms of some of contemporary design's more celebrated figures: text blocks that run into the gutter; words reversed out of columns of type, obliterating the text; words that shoot off the edge of the text area and continue mid-letter on the next line; overlapping messages that merge in dense overlays with Soleri's photos and drawings; a giant Helvetica sentence that rolls on like a juggernaut for nineteen pages; a duplicated passage cancelled with the instruction "VOID THIS PAGE." Wall's design owes a debt to Fluxus typography and to concrete poetry in its "encrusted jigsaw assemblages of words." The words are printed in white ink on black paper stock. The Sackner Archive also holds the hard cover 2nd edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.