A Grammar for Mutualism

Increasingly, planners and other urban thinkers are investing in the promises afforded by the Smart City—the ability to measure, model and project what the city is and to manage what it becomes. This way of approaching urban development inherently lends to urban spaces that are (intentionally) predictable and conservative. Working at the coarse scale of the zone, the city plan, and the spreadsheet, the urban environment is simplified, made easier to control and to understand. Consequently, complexity is purged and with it a host of agents and processes that are deemed undesirable for one reason or another. This is not the process for the making of an ethical city.

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-14-2