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==== Future Of The City ==== | ==== Future Of The City ==== | ||
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- | Cities are becoming ever more significant habitats for humans in the future. Envisioning the future of the city can bring forth significant assumptions | + | Cities are becoming ever more significant habitats for humans in the future. Envisioning the future of the city can bring forth significant assumptions |
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Group – Rarita | Group – Rarita | ||
- | Cities – general ideas | + | ====Cities – general ideas==== |
- | * Most population | + | * Most people |
- | * Surveillance – recent history | + | * Surveillance – recent history |
* City annihilates or amplifies individuality | * City annihilates or amplifies individuality | ||
* Sectoral industry cities are different from continent to continent / country to country | * Sectoral industry cities are different from continent to continent / country to country | ||
* Paris as example of homelessness, | * Paris as example of homelessness, | ||
* Cities have different orientations (industrial, | * Cities have different orientations (industrial, | ||
- | * The issue of ghost cities, abandoned or failed cities (ex. Detroit, Chinese cities) | + | * The issue of ghost cities, abandoned or failed cities (e.g. Detroit, Chinese cities) |
* Pathological behaviors in cities | * Pathological behaviors in cities | ||
- | * Homelessness – big in capital cities, | + | * Homelessness – high in capital cities, |
- | * One is always a minority and never the target of everything that is going on in a city. | + | * One is always a minority and never the target of everything that is going on in a city |
* Sustainability – cities are the least sustainable form | * Sustainability – cities are the least sustainable form | ||
* Everything that has to do with cities is a paradox | * Everything that has to do with cities is a paradox | ||
- | * Every city has a potential for a better path to the future | + | * Every city holds the potential for a better path to the future |
* Rural-urban distinction | * Rural-urban distinction | ||
- | + | Characteristics | |
- | Characteristics | + | |
* Lots of people | * Lots of people | ||
* Crowds | * Crowds | ||
- | * Special districts for all tastes/ | + | * Special districts for all tastes / hobbies – thematic, food, cultural, for specific groups |
* Concentration yet variety | * Concentration yet variety | ||
- | * Cities cluster/ | + | * Cities cluster / marginalize |
- | * Communities that always | + | * Communities that always |
- | * Traffic – the too many cars issues | + | * Traffic – too many cars, yet cars define social status and are considered |
- | * There is always a chance for leisure activities (running exercise) | + | * There is always a chance for leisure activities (running, exercise) |
- | * Biking is more and more used | + | * Biking is increasingly common |
* Lots of services | * Lots of services | ||
* Geography / landscape defines cities | * Geography / landscape defines cities | ||
- | * Eco-cities and real sustainable cities– can they exist ? | + | * Eco-cities and real sustainable cities – can they exist? |
- | * Food – farmers, | + | * Food – farmers, |
+ | Likes – What do we like / love about cities? | ||
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- | Likes – What do a like/love in a city?? | ||
* There are communities for everything | * There are communities for everything | ||
- | * Divers | + | * Diverse |
* Safety | * Safety | ||
- | * Cities are “walk-able” | + | * Cities are walkable |
- | * Multicultural | + | * Multicultural |
* History | * History | ||
* Multiples, culture crash | * Multiples, culture crash | ||
- | * Cities are too big to experience | + | * Cities are too big to comprehend easily, inexhaustible |
- | * The chance to change cities | + | * Concentration |
- | * Concentration | + | * Anonymity |
- | * Gaining anonymity | + | |
* Variety | * Variety | ||
* Cities as culture magnets | * Cities as culture magnets | ||
* Velocity – speed, access, information, | * Velocity – speed, access, information, | ||
* Variety of foods / cuisines | * Variety of foods / cuisines | ||
- | * Connectivity, | + | * Connectivity, |
* Freedom and obscurity | * Freedom and obscurity | ||
* Different cultural backgrounds and different styles | * Different cultural backgrounds and different styles | ||
* The chance to make choices | * The chance to make choices | ||
- | * Regenerative cities | + | * Regenerative cities: cities can transform |
- | * Love a city that still has/keeps a human size | + | * Urban planners |
+ | * Love a city that still has / preserves | ||
* Changing realities | * Changing realities | ||
* Friendly people | * Friendly people | ||
* Interest in marginal groups | * Interest in marginal groups | ||
- | * Infinite freedom | ||
- | * you can find communities that welcome you | ||
- | * getting the chance not to be noticed | ||
- | Dislikes – What do I hate most in cities? | + | Dislikes – What do we dislike / hate about cities? |
* Stigmatization | * Stigmatization | ||
* Racism | * Racism | ||
- | * Bad urban planning – historical vs new neighborhoods | + | * Poor urban planning – historical vs new neighborhoods |
- | * Lack of forests | + | * Lack of forests, distance from nature |
* Traffic jams | * Traffic jams | ||
- | * Claustrophobic | + | * Claustrophobia |
* Dependence on resources | * Dependence on resources | ||
- | | + | * Concentration of people |
- | | + | * Social / public spaces that make you feel strange, alienated |
- | * Loosing anonymity | + | |
- | * Social/ | + | |
* Intolerance | * Intolerance | ||
* Getting the chance not to be noticed | * Getting the chance not to be noticed | ||
- | * Lack of interest | + | * Lack of interest |
* Distraction | * Distraction | ||
* Burden of making choices | * Burden of making choices | ||
- | * Loneliness | + | * Loneliness, isolation |
- | * No place for losers – just for successful people | + | * No place for losers – only for successful people |
* The social pressure to show you are successful | * The social pressure to show you are successful | ||
* Hating the city itself because everything manmade is not perfect | * Hating the city itself because everything manmade is not perfect | ||
- | * Crime ; crime happens if neighborhood | + | * Crime: impact of neighborhood |
- | * The inhumanity of the city – it does not work on human scale, | + | * The inhumanity of the city – fails on a human scale, |
- | * Dependence on resources (ex. electricity) | + | |
- | * Bad urban planning.. | + | |
* Garbage / waste | * Garbage / waste | ||
* Ignorance | * Ignorance | ||
- | * Many choices but actually | + | * Many e.g. consumer |
- | * Lack of safety | + | * Lack of safety |
- | * Crime – riots | + | * Pollution |
- | * Protests | + | * Unfriendly for animals – created for use by human beings |
- | * Pollution, | + | * Cities grow without |
- | * Strikes | + | * Sexual violence, sexual |
- | * Unfriendly for animals – created for the interest of the supreme | + | |
- | * Cities grow without | + | |
- | * Sexual violence, sexual | + | |
- | * Ignorance | + | |
+ | Other | ||
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- | Others | + | * Rules and slave mentality |
- | | + | * Cities are always on the verge of collapse |
- | * Rules and slaves, | + | |
- | * Small image, big image, | + | |
- | * City is always on the verge of collapse | + | |
- | * Using more images then before | + | |
* Internet – urbanization of mental space | * Internet – urbanization of mental space | ||
- | * You have limited time to generate as many identities as you like. | ||
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- | Trends | + | ====Trends==== |
- | * Less sustainability with environment | + | |
- | * The gap between online and offline will increase | + | * The gap between online and offline will increase |
- | * Dilution of class geography | + | * Dilution of class geography |
- | * Less social interaction | + | * Less social interaction |
- | * Nation state -> city state | + | * Nation state -> city state |
- | * More visible infrastructure | + | * More visible infrastructure |
- | * Increased mobility / | + | * Increased mobility / instability |
- | * Persistence of slums? | + | * Persistence of slums? |
- | * Can’s say (for now)-> citizenship dilution | + | * Mega goes mega mega |
- | * Mega goes mega mega | + | * Self-gentrifying |
- | * Self gentrifying | + | * Turning mere existence |
- | * Would be nice to turn existence | + | * Dependence |
- | * Dependent | + | * Aging / generation |
- | * Aging/ generation | + | * Architecture will change / less nature |
- | * Architecture will change /less nature | + | * The number of religious people will grow |
- | * The number of religious people will grow | + | * More madness (e.g. religious |
- | * More madness (religious) | + | * Music / dance |
- | * Music/ | + | |
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- | Scenarios | + | ====Scenarios==== |
Group – Mihaela | Group – Mihaela | ||
- | Minks Scenario | + | Minsk Scenario |
- | + | The mayor of Minsk was a famous | |
- | The mayor of Minsk was a well famous | + | |
- | The mayor from Minsk was the first foreign guest in the show. The crew of the first Indian mission to Mars came to Minsk one day for a very meditatized | + | The mayor from Minsk was the first foreign guest on the show. The crew of the first Indian mission to Mars came to Minsk one day for a very mediated |
- | The mayor has the Bollywood support | + | The mayor had Bollywood support |
- | Minsk became a tech oriented society connected with the Baltic tech hub, but left aside the social problems of the city among communities that do not interact with space industry. | + | Minsk became a tech-oriented society connected with the Baltic tech hub, but largely ignored |
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- | There is a group of “radical disintermediationalists” protesters against centralized technology, mediation of experience and for direct experience of reality. mostly average citizens and post-media hackers and trickters. they try to hijack the TV broadcasts of the mayor and his Indian guests and reduce access to the event of the fans in India; The protesters created the first physical protest in years. | + | |
+ | There was a group of “radical disintermediationalists” - protesters against centralized technology and mediation of experience and for the direct experience of reality. Mostly average citizens and post-media hackers and tricksters, they tried to hijack the TV broadcasts of the mayor and his Indian guests and reduce access to the event for the fans in India. The protesters created the first physical protest in years. Thousands took to the streets but since such a physical protest had not happened in recent years, security preparations were incomplete inadequate. The authorities tried to offer free vodka to buy off the protesters; vodka sales had been restricted in the city for the past 10 years. | ||
- | Other groups | + | Other groups also tried to claim attention during the spectacle: for example, protesting against the failed |
- | The disintermediation society | + | The disintermediation society: |
- | The direct experience of reality | + | This group believed in the direct experience of reality. Any technology |
- | The low probable | + | The low probability, |
- | Assuming the future | + | ====Assuming the future==== |
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