building a
TOTALIST CITY
< PRE-DRAFT++ >
Transcends the "right to the city" vs "back to the land" attitudes.
Revisions:
201710xx developments around ECA
20200907 moveover
20201018 ping
20210823 reorg a bit
Ties to:
🔗hackbases
🔗architecture
🔗cfp-jvea #tomerge [!!]
🔗hacking-housing (patterns)
🔗tech-tree (infrastructure)
🔗alike
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Table of Contents
¶* Simple and accessible to manufacture
create necessary industry as part of the city. (self-replicating)
create necessary industry as part of the city. (self-replicating)
¶* New culture
* new, post-nuclear family sociality
* each place has its own culture anyway ... it's a blank slate
* this one just has a different geneaology
(had discussion with Gustavo, for a "maximum reconfigurations", but can't remember)
* new, post-nuclear family sociality
* each place has its own culture anyway ... it's a blank slate
* this one just has a different geneaology
¶* Shared participation for stakeholders
###huh?
* youth without any chance of owning a house in the west
* migrants, refugees
* [...]
* youth without any chance of owning a house in the west
* migrants, refugees
* [...]
¶* Integrate within existing flows of travelling culture
"be on the map" for bands, productions, exhibitions, residency artists, etc ... to visit
"be on the map" for bands, productions, exhibitions, residency artists, etc ... to visit
¶* Radical inclusivity
measure by both:
* ability to make a decision
* having awareness of possibility of decision
for all
measure by both:
* ability to make a decision
* having awareness of possibility of decision
for all
¶_____ new/unsorted
¶Money & resource considerations
:
* ground up, already-available public (base)
* sponsorship, own production abundance (upgrades)
#TOMERGE
various CHT #numerics
:
* ground up, already-available public (base)
* sponsorship, own production abundance (upgrades)
#TOMERGE
various CHT #numerics
¶What do people do in cities?
What are cities for?
:
* subsist!
* easily find a job
* be close enough to a variety of cultural & social (production & consumption) offerings
* environment already built up
* super-specified division of labour
* [...]
What are cities for?
:
* subsist!
* easily find a job
* be close enough to a variety of cultural & social (production & consumption) offerings
* environment already built up
* super-specified division of labour
* [...]
¶Parallelity of cities
Cities inherently have parallel, multiple realities.
But:
* to what extent?
* cla
* [...]
How to establish and advance ...
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Cities inherently have parallel, multiple realities.
But:
* to what extent?
* cla
* [...]
How to establish and advance ...
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¶* Shanty towns
* including El Jablito
* other EU examples (like Ostia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shanty_towns
* ###
* including El Jablito
* other EU examples (like Ostia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shanty_towns
* ###
¶* Festivals
(from more to less self-organized / technically sovereign / capacity for durational)
↓
* ZADs / occupation camps
* CCC camps
* Going Nowhere
* Burning Man
* big music festivals
* ###
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_2_Dream_Too
(from more to less self-organized / technically sovereign / capacity for durational)
↓
* ZADs / occupation camps
* CCC camps
* Going Nowhere
* Burning Man
* big music festivals
* ###
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_2_Dream_Too
¶* Urban USA (was built in 200 years)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_urban_history
_____________________________
[!] compare, represent:
* their resources
* contemporary mainline
* contemporary alter/DIY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_urban_history
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[!] compare, represent:
* their resources
* contemporary mainline
* contemporary alter/DIY
¶* The Line ("NEOM") @Saudi Arabia
"""
Saudi Arabia’s NEOM to build 170km-long, AI-powered carless city . The Line development will be home to a million people and have “zero streets and zero carbon emissions,” says crown prince. (...)The belt of “hyper-connected future communities” will stretch from the Red Sea coast inland through the 26,500-square-kilometer NEOM giga project in northwest Saudi Arabia, according to a press statement. (...) “We need to transform the concept of a conventional city into that of a futuristic one.”
"""
https://wired.me/science/environment/saudi-arabias-neom-to-build-170km-long-ai-powered-carless-city/?fbclid=IwAR2E8f8G_k4Y2Zgz_glml8ebHvS_BP1tG_lnPpX1Rm4n9vFo4iVJAZEby2k
"""
Saudi Arabia’s NEOM to build 170km-long, AI-powered carless city . The Line development will be home to a million people and have “zero streets and zero carbon emissions,” says crown prince. (...)The belt of “hyper-connected future communities” will stretch from the Red Sea coast inland through the 26,500-square-kilometer NEOM giga project in northwest Saudi Arabia, according to a press statement. (...) “We need to transform the concept of a conventional city into that of a futuristic one.”
"""
https://wired.me/science/environment/saudi-arabias-neom-to-build-170km-long-ai-powered-carless-city/?fbclid=IwAR2E8f8G_k4Y2Zgz_glml8ebHvS_BP1tG_lnPpX1Rm4n9vFo4iVJAZEby2k
¶*** RESOURCES / INTERESTING / ALIKE
https://redefineschool.com/city-ness/
[!!]
http://www.participatorycity.org/
[!!]
https://futurearchitectureplatform.org/
https://si.architectsdeclare.com
http://www.kudc3.net/public-city/
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/09/archives/backtoland-movement-seeks-selfsufficiency-the-growing-backtotheland.html
https://www.amazon.com/Back-Land-Young-Americans-Nature/dp/1566635802/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement
https://www.quora.com/How-would-you-design-a-perfect-new-city-from-scratch-creative-fanciful-ideas-are-welcome-What-features-might-you-strive-for-or-avoid/answer/Brian-Fey
[!!] read more random "how would a city look like if it were built from ground up" stuff
🔗hacking-housing
https://twitter.com/tmccormick
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/638297986/will-moroccos-chinese-funded-tech-city-ever-break-ground
China <> Morroco "tech city"
<------------------ (new) RESOURCES / INTERESTING / ALIKE ↑
https://redefineschool.com/city-ness/
[!!]
http://www.participatorycity.org/
[!!]
https://futurearchitectureplatform.org/
https://si.architectsdeclare.com
http://www.kudc3.net/public-city/
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/09/archives/backtoland-movement-seeks-selfsufficiency-the-growing-backtotheland.html
https://www.amazon.com/Back-Land-Young-Americans-Nature/dp/1566635802/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement
https://www.quora.com/How-would-you-design-a-perfect-new-city-from-scratch-creative-fanciful-ideas-are-welcome-What-features-might-you-strive-for-or-avoid/answer/Brian-Fey
[!!] read more random "how would a city look like if it were built from ground up" stuff
🔗hacking-housing
https://twitter.com/tmccormick
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/638297986/will-moroccos-chinese-funded-tech-city-ever-break-ground
China <> Morroco "tech city"
<------------------ (new) RESOURCES / INTERESTING / ALIKE ↑
¶[!!**] rewrite basic
Neither the self-depletion of fighting for "the right to the city", nor the escape of "back to the land"
Transcending the opposition of "the right to the city" vs "back to the land" tactics,
___________
on "the city"
+ exogenous
+ non-escape
- self-depletion (vs the formed state):
always on the defense
+ keep culture ... some dwindling ("to defend")
[...] ###
on "the land":
- escapist
- "self-sufficiency" and "localism" are self-centered, dumb, politically rank
- self-depletion: inexperience in non-cultivated nature
- too small scale in itself:
always "idealistic" and never considering patterns to really matter
- need middle class money anyway
- no culture
- hippie
[...] ###
"""
Only a tiny minority of the newcomers have achieved the movement's goal, self‐sufficiency. Those who have come anywhere close usually have done so with money that they or their parents earned in the middle‐class world.
"""
Transcending the opposition of "the right to the city" vs "back to the land" tactics,
___________
on "the city"
+ exogenous
+ non-escape
- self-depletion (vs the formed state):
always on the defense
+ keep culture ... some dwindling ("to defend")
[...] ###
on "the land":
- escapist
- "self-sufficiency" and "localism" are self-centered, dumb, politically rank
- self-depletion: inexperience in non-cultivated nature
- too small scale in itself:
always "idealistic" and never considering patterns to really matter
- need middle class money anyway
- no culture
- hippie
[...] ###
"""
Only a tiny minority of the newcomers have achieved the movement's goal, self‐sufficiency. Those who have come anywhere close usually have done so with money that they or their parents earned in the middle‐class world.
"""
¶urban city + "little plot" = worst of both worlds
you live:
* opression of the city
* opression of not knowing what to do in nature
* too small to have valuable production
* big enough to need all the tools
* big enough to think you're doing something
though, this is almost almost always practised by "home owners" who then "have" an extra abundancy of time to waste.
(rather than re-distribute to maximize the original resource)
:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesteading
* [...]
you live:
* opression of the city
* opression of not knowing what to do in nature
* too small to have valuable production
* big enough to need all the tools
* big enough to think you're doing something
though, this is almost almost always practised by "home owners" who then "have" an extra abundancy of time to waste.
(rather than re-distribute to maximize the original resource)
:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesteading
* [...]
¶[!*] what to do with contemporary cities?
A) abandon proto-fascist dynamics to stay there
B) leave:
* find comrades
* find and deploy new sociophysics patterns
* bootstrap further regeneration:
start more hypercities
develop more hypernature
* ###
A) abandon proto-fascist dynamics to stay there
B) leave:
* find comrades
* find and deploy new sociophysics patterns
* bootstrap further regeneration:
start more hypercities
develop more hypernature
* ###
¶[!*] city-building within computer games
https://twitter.com/alfred_twu/status/1345955063353597954
"""Been doing some gaming on the holidays. There's a lot of differences between different city building games, and it reflects the places where they're designed. Here's a thread on SimCity, Cities Skylines, Transport Tycoon, A-Train, and Soviet Republic. 1/"""
https://twitter.com/alfred_twu/status/1345955063353597954
"""Been doing some gaming on the holidays. There's a lot of differences between different city building games, and it reflects the places where they're designed. Here's a thread on SimCity, Cities Skylines, Transport Tycoon, A-Train, and Soviet Republic. 1/"""
¶Meanwhile, liberal elites...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Villages_Project
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekwendeni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Villages_Project
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekwendeni
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