Manifesto
Manifesto: Inverted City. Uniting the Periphery with Centre to create a hyper dense multi-dimensional knowledge metropolis.
Context: A city is a virus; spreading a global plague of consumption on a planet unable to react. This year, half of the world's population live in a city. Based on consumerist economies, they devour three quarters of the world's resources from beyond the city and defecate the waste back again. A figure, which is set to increase over the next 40 years.
Conflict: These worldwide consumerist economies have led the city away from networked societies in equilibrium with their external environment. There has also been an increase of segregation of internal city sectors, eliminating community cohesion. By far the largest sector is the growth in urban sprawl; the growth of periphery over centre. These low-density suburbs consume more land, and the occupants consume more resources, than the city itself.
Strategy: To concentrate on three specific agendas that begin to create an Inverted City. A new type of City that is based on knowledge exchange with the Public Forum as its constituent part. City sectors will still thrive; living, entertainment, commerce and public services etc. However, these three agendas will begin to change the very notion of how they function.
Private Erasure; the inversion from private to public. Cities of today are swelled with private ownership; the society we live in. Through inverting this obsession, all programmes will be brought to the realm of the public, a new society will be created where information is exchanged freely and rapidly. The Public Forum is the space for companies to trade. It is the space to be entertained. It is the space to live.
Extreme Networks; inversion from planar to volumetric. A neural network of knowledge can only be established through a neural networked city; a hyper dense multidimensional city that unites the urban sprawl into the centre.
Programme Unity; inversion of programme segregation. Programmes and professions will unite and be distributed throughout the Inverted City. Networked together, they will also feed from information gathered around them.
Context: A city is a virus; spreading a global plague of consumption on a planet unable to react. This year, half of the world's population live in a city. Based on consumerist economies, they devour three quarters of the world's resources from beyond the city and defecate the waste back again. A figure, which is set to increase over the next 40 years.
Conflict: These worldwide consumerist economies have led the city away from networked societies in equilibrium with their external environment. There has also been an increase of segregation of internal city sectors, eliminating community cohesion. By far the largest sector is the growth in urban sprawl; the growth of periphery over centre. These low-density suburbs consume more land, and the occupants consume more resources, than the city itself.
Strategy: To concentrate on three specific agendas that begin to create an Inverted City. A new type of City that is based on knowledge exchange with the Public Forum as its constituent part. City sectors will still thrive; living, entertainment, commerce and public services etc. However, these three agendas will begin to change the very notion of how they function.
Private Erasure; the inversion from private to public. Cities of today are swelled with private ownership; the society we live in. Through inverting this obsession, all programmes will be brought to the realm of the public, a new society will be created where information is exchanged freely and rapidly. The Public Forum is the space for companies to trade. It is the space to be entertained. It is the space to live.
Extreme Networks; inversion from planar to volumetric. A neural network of knowledge can only be established through a neural networked city; a hyper dense multidimensional city that unites the urban sprawl into the centre.
Programme Unity; inversion of programme segregation. Programmes and professions will unite and be distributed throughout the Inverted City. Networked together, they will also feed from information gathered around them.
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