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A sustainable urban growth model A sustainable urban growth modelThe most interesting thing of this app is that it liberates urbanism from ideology. Urban studies have always been a form of abstraction or a rationalization of processes that—as the app shows–actually had other reasons: the system of the archipelago’s growth, the creation of communities, etcetera. Throughout the twentieth century, there has been a constant attempt to normalize building processes, and we are now really paying the price of having built a city with a forma mentis tied to the idea of different uses—living,working, playing, having fun. Some abstract ideological labels! What’s interesting is that this app reads three cities–and Venice in particular–critically and it brings to light an urban DNA that has nothing to do with the superstructure that we’ve built around it, which is a structure that has created enormous confusion. So the app teaches us that it is important to go back to the origins. In finding an origin for why things were done, Archipelago Town-Lines, gives us a way of interpreting urbanity as an archipelago, one that is often saturated but can perhaps be recovered. The app describes Berlin and reinterpret its history and the anthropological model that still remains, namely a collection of neighborhoods. And the fact there might be someone (like Hitler) who wants to overturn this system is, I think,a really important lesson in ‘reading’ the city. We are currently living a moment of crisis that is full of interesting potential for architects as we try to understand what the new creative, intellectual tool may be. I am sure Archipelago Town-lines will help this discussion to take a decisive step forward..
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Archipelago Town-lines Archipelago Town-linesA truly innovative way of describing current urban issues. What at first glance appears to be a book of urban theory is in fact a radical attack on urban theory as we know it, sweeping away the foundations of current thought in its wake. The argument is compelling and the new urban growth model based on the gestalt figure of the archipelago is very convincing as it supported by a sound and accurate analysis of the historical formation of Venice as an archetype of the proposed model. Thorough multimedia analysis of recent and current developments of Berlin and Beirut discussed on the opposite end of the urban spectrum: a very sustainable model against a very unsustainable one. A MUST READ for those who have an interest about urbanity and the (deviated) way the latter is going.
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A pleasure to read! A pleasure to read!It makes one travel in time and space through these amazing, full of surprises cities that never cease to stun…. Finally, a theorist with the brilliant gift of presenting complex issues in an entertaining and understandable way.
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Archipelago Town-lines Archipelago Town-linesA truly innovative way of describing current urban issues. What at first glance appears to be a book of urban theory is in fact a radical attack on urban theory as we know it, sweeping away the foundations of current thought in its wake. The argument is compelling and the new urban growth model based on the gestalt figure of the archipelago is very convincing as it supported by a sound and accurate analysis of the historical formation of Venice as an archetype of the proposed model. Thorough multimedia analysis of recent and current developments of Berlin and Beirut discussed on the opposite end of the urban spectrum: a very sustainable model against a very unsustainable one. A MUST READ for those who have an interest about urbanity and the (deviated) way the latter is going.
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Archipelago Town-Lines Archipelago Town-LinesTo read Archipelago Town-Lines is to understand that the reconstruction of our cities also means a repositioning of democracy because, at the micro scale proposed by the app, democracy is applicable. At the macro scale, democracy becomes a formality. Our European cities need scales that are appropriate to expressing a form of democracy. Archipelago Town-Lines makes this very clear. Today, I recommend this book almost more to urban activists than to architect-urbanists, because it’s the urban activists who, through their actions, have often succeeded in creating the line of democracy, in creating the archipelago. This is what happens in every city. Reading the book Archipelago Town-lines was really beneficial for me to understand this and to consider the city from another point of view. This is a great merit of this app.m
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- Releasealmost 11 years ago