Unscrambling Madrid: Describing the Urban Mix Recipe before Degrowth

300.000 Km/s, Essay, No Density, Technology and fabrication, Urban Paradigms.

Carbon-emissions, Cartography, City, Complexity, Diversity, Essay, Geometry, Interaction, Land uses, Madrid, Mapping, Mixed uses, Population, Social infrastructure, Space-time relationship, Spain, Territory&Mobility, Transformation, Urban dynamics, Urban mobility.

When we describe a city, we usually talk about its boundaries, the elements that compose it, the organization of its uses, the depletion of its land and the flows that take place within it. This description of anatomical nature becomes more complex and precise the more detail it can incorporate. It is an explanation that is impossible to complete, faithful to the constant changes that occur in the object being described. Therefore, in the attempt to achieve a perfect description, we are at risk of generating an exact reproduction of the city we are trying to explain – just as complex and incomprehensible.