Ephemeral Urbanism and Branzi’s Weak Urbanism

Andrea Branzi: The Project in the Age of Relativity, Essay, Felipe Vera, No Density, Rahul Mehrotra, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms.

Cultural Urbanization, Ephemeral, Essay, Expanded Architecture, Experimental, Public Catalyst, Radical urbanism, Rethinking Urban Environments, Sustainability, Technology, Temporary appropriation, Urban Development, Urban landscape, Urban Paradigms, Urban research, Urban settlement, Urbanism.

This essay by Rahul Mehrotra and Felipe Vera, is an excerpt of Andrea Branzi: E=mc2 The Project in the Age of Relativity

Today, urban environments face ever-increasing flows of human movement as well as an accelerated frequency of natural disasters and iterative economic crises that dictate the allocation of capital toward the physical components of cities. As a consequence, urban settings are required to be more flexible in order to be better prepared to respond to, organize, and resist external and internal pressures. At a time in which uncertainty is the new norm, urban attributes like reversibility and openness appear to be critical to a more sustainable form of urban development. Therefore, in contemporary urbanism around the world, it is clear that in order for cities to be sustainable, they need to resemble and facilitate active fluxes in motion, rather than be limited by static, material configurations.