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Title Experiments in associative urbanism.
Author Vereebs, Tom.
Source Architectural design, 2009 July-Aug., v.79, n.4, p.24-33

REBIRTH OF A CITY

After reading the document about urbanism and watching some videos, I came with this idea for my final assignment:

There is a big city full of orthogonal buildings; those buildings have different heights and functions, for example: office, house, apartment, industrial, museums, and parks. None of them are placed in the right place; the industrial buildings are in the centre beside the office ones, there are houses everywhere and apartment buildings also. Everything is mixed; the city has no planning at all. The streets are like a big orthogonal labyrinth, there are no main avenues or sidewalks, then that path starts to show thanks to a bright liquid light that goes by all the streets. We can see only the lighted path, then the city appears again and suddenly something funny starts to happen, a strong force enters the city and starts collapsing everything that touches, until there is nothing left, the city is gone! And only when we thought there was no hope a bright liquid stuff starts to drop out of nowhere, and we can see it spreading quickly as if it had a purpose, a mission. Nobody knew what was happening until the camera starts to zoom out then we can see that the bright liquid stuff is forming a new path, for a new city, then buildings start to grow from the below, office, industrial, museums, houses, apartments, etc. And all the buildings have a very complex shape as well as the main path there was nothing orthogonal. The most important thing of all was that everything was starting to organize and the buildings where separated by different areas, the industrial area, the commerce and retail, the museums and historic sites, and the residential area. There was no longer a chaos city on the contrary there was planning, there was urbanism and everything had a very complex shape and system like the human body, it was amazing.

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