Funny how these days everyone gets to boast about ambitious plans to build radically new types of cities except for architects and urban planners, whom nobody has ever heard of.
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To be fair though, the smarts in smart cities is mostly retrofitted electronics and software, not rebuilding the physical city. So you guys are mostly benched except where there’s room to do real rebuilding construction. Jailbreaking cities not rebuilding.
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There have certainly been movements to try & redefine the field to be more about things like networks & flows of resources and information. If I hadn’t been exposed to architecture at a time/place where those ideas were trendy I would probably have more realistic expectations.
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