Urban Design and Development Seminar Six

Ø  TIMELESS:

Classical

Universal

Maintain value

Ø  Buildings are products of efficiency and profit – TIME (modern day). Our values are different to historical periods of the past.

Ø  Two things in culture change in time

- Music and food

However, building (due to specialisation – money etc.) takes longer to change – unless there is a revolution.

Ø  Industrial metropolis is still with us but is transformed – Global city

Ø  Global city exists because of the various information technologies (i.e. internet) have transformed society

Ø  Information – network society is using new information infrastructure for innovation and production

Ø  Globalisation – i.e. airports – same chains, layouts – woven into built environment

Ø  Individual identity on the other hand

Ø  This split of society is seen as a schizophrenia of society

Ø  It is a way to adapt to the rapid change of our cities. Part of the underlying tension

Ø  Network societies affect individuals. An economic struggle – a class struggle. This subsided mid-29^th century

Ø   Some argue that the struggle has been superseded by the identity struggle

Ø  What is the difference between building in the class struggle compared to current struggle

Ø  ICON + IMAGE =INDENTITY

Ø  Relationship between identity and global cities

Ø  STARcitects – identity

Ø  Speed, quality and quality of interactions

Ø  1. Information used to act on technology. Now days this is in reverse

Ø  2. Pervasiveness of the information technology e.g. everyone has phones (mobile)t-shirts with slogans etc. anyone can be anywhere anytime

Ø  3. Networking logic. The set of relationships / complexity of interaction when we use the information technology – speed and pervasiveness. The unpredictability of the consequence of these interactions. BUT also leads to creativity

- Power of interactions produces creativity

- PARIS (19th century very uniform, now very varied and different.)

- Is there something wrong with that?

Ø  Network logic

- Multiplicity

- Unpredictability of interaction

- Creativity

Ø  Network nodes – flexibility and amount of interaction

Ø  Value = number of nodes

V =n > (n-1)

n = v

1 =1

2=2

3=9

Ø  Biological rhythms governed by daily and annual patterns

Ø  Humans have developed own rhythms – e.g. watches, structured time.

Ø  Natural vs. social

Networking is more to do with the breakdown of these natural and social rhythms and the notion of the life cycle itself

Ø  Being anywhere anytime – virtually or otherwise – this is one of the disruptions.

Ø  ‘Timeless Time’ – the dominant temporality of time occurs when a new changes in the flow or rhythm – (perturbation)

Ø  The network society has interrupted the natural and social flow and order of time – patterns and rhythms

Ø  Time dimension is being totally changed

Ø  THE SPACE OF FLOWS refers to all the flows of the networks. This is due to the new ICT or network society

Ø  The flows themselves are dominant and have the value over place

Ø  Nodes are gateways – where they change into flows

Ø  The power of flows NOT the flows of power

Ø  We live in REAL VIRTUALITY

Ø  Space of flow shapes time – this reverses notion of time

Ø  Is it possible to integrate space of places and space of flows? SUSTAINABILITY

Ø  Is it possible for a global city to be sustainable?

Ø  What is the difference between an international society and a global society?

Ø  What is a global city?

Ø  Cities that have undergone change in economic base, spatial organisation and social structure.