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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Geographies of Mobilities : Subjects, Spaces and Practices |
Editors | Tim Cresswell, Peter Merriman |
Number of pages | 20 |
Place of Publication | Aldershot |
Publisher | Ashgate |
Publication date | 2011 |
Pages | 167-186 |
Chapter | 11 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-7546-7316-3, 978-1-4094-5365-9 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4094-1782-8 |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Mobility
- Archigram
- Yona Friedman
- Radical architecture
- Nomadism