Cities moving, plugging in, floating, dissolving

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Abstract

In many ways the essence of the city is the supreme coming together for evrything [sic] of it all people come and go it’s all moving the bits and pieces that form the city – they’re expendable it’s all come-go (Peter Cook 1963, 83) The old fixed and static elements that built our cities are becoming increasingly irrelevant … In a transient society, the mobile searchlight pinpointing an automobile sale or a movie premiere is more important than any building; a credit card system more meaningful than a high-rise bank. Urbanism, if it is to mean anything at all, is a fluid matrix of things that do their own thing. In William Burroughs’ words, we must keep our bags packed and ready to move all the time
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGeographies of Mobilities : Subjects, Spaces and Practices
EditorsTim Cresswell, Peter Merriman
Number of pages20
Place of PublicationAldershot
PublisherAshgate
Publication date2011
Pages167-186
Chapter11
ISBN (Print)978-0-7546-7316-3, 978-1-4094-5365-9
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4094-1782-8
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Mobility
  • Archigram
  • Yona Friedman
  • Radical architecture
  • Nomadism

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