Cloud Urbanism: Towards a Redistribution of Spatial Value

Axel, Nick

Cloud Urbanism: Towards a Redistribution of Spatial Value - UrbanNext, May 4, 2017. - 1478 words.

Essay, High Density, Nick Axel, Politics and economics, Territory and mobility

Chicago, Contemporary metropolis, Critique, Efficiency measures, Essay, Future cities, Future projections, Global Awareness, MakeSpace, Megalopolis, Metropolis, Micro-apartments, Micro-community, New York, Next Urbanity, Notes towards a History of Urbanism, Optimized living, Personal storage, Planetary urbanizations, Political ecology, Social consciousness, Urban conditions, Urban Paradigms, Urban pathologies, Urban political ecology, Urban sprawl, USA, Washington D.C.

First published at Volume 47 – The System*, as part of Volume Magazine -- https://www.bruil.info/product/volume-47-the-system/

Two recent trends have recently emerged from the United States’ real estate market that pick up on societal transformations in the way architecture and the city is inhabited. If synchronized, they stand to alter the principles under riding contemporary logics of urban development. They do so by embodying an alternative system of values, and thus frame its spatial articulation as a critical design project. The purpose of this short text is to present the two trends next to one another, evaluate the prospects of their synchronization, and speculate toward the future they potentiate in unison.

2015 P/A Progressive Architecture Citation Award 2012 NYAIA Merit Award Future Award

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Urbanisation City Society Consumerism Chicago, USA USA

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