02541nmm a22002537a 4500 ES-BaAUN 20230217122310.0 221102| ||||go||d|||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 2575-5374 ES-BaAUN eng ES-BaAUN Lerup, Lars ‎ author. Beautiful Catastrophes urbanNext, October 10, 2018. 2138 words. Essay, Lars Lerup, Low Density, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms Built Environment & Low Density, Community, Density, Essay, Future cities, Global Awareness, Houston, Immigration, Latin America, Los Angeles, Migration, North America, Politics, Population, Resilience, Territorial Approach, Territory&Mobility, Texas, urban, Urban Paradigms, Urban planning Note: this text was written in 2006 and suffers therefore from both hind- and foresight. For example, I missed one other city that operates in tandem with the physical city – the Internet City – whose territory is endless but also devours endless amounts of electric energy and attention. Not to speak of the sudden turn to the right (and I’m not talking about traffic) –welcome to the catastrophic factor… Futurism has much in common with fiction: interesting maybe, but hardly very effective at telling the future. Plus, reality – rather than futurism or fiction – has proven to be more interesting (and exciting) than either. This does not negate the value of the two lesser arts, but it may shift their use, particularly if we are tempted to employ predictions as planning tools. Thus, when I speculate on the future of cities, I must do so with this caveat: my future-speculations are umbilically bound to current reality. The future that I see as the projection of the real lacks one reproducible ingredient: the unpredictable that is embedded in the real and is essential to its very liveliness. This unpredictability – the catastrophic factor characteristic of all living events – may be what makes reality more interesting than fiction. The following therefore are mere projections, but done with an additional twist to compensate for my inability to recreate the catastrophic factor: done tongue-in-cheek or, more precisely, done without much forethought, catching glimpses of the future lazily from the corner of my eye. Architecture Planning Cities https://urbannext.net/beautiful-catastrophes/ Access to info ddc CF 0 1971 1971 0 0 ddc 0 0 9876543210 9876543210 2023-02-17 0 2023-02-17 2023-02-17 CF