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Cities on the Edge of Chaos |
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| Authors: | Colin Fournier |
| Abstract: | Is the mass-customised city no more than a smokescreen, a re-evocation of Modernist positivism and its problem-solving ideology? Colin Fournier , Emeritus Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), and Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), questions the premise of this issue and asks if the variation required for a city's survival ‘at the edge of chaos’ lies beyond mass customisation. |
| Keywords: | Surrealism Comte de Lautréamont Tom Verebes Modernism ‘Postmodernism’ Taylorism Fordism Industrial Revolution Nike Bernard Cache ‘law of requisite variety’ Stuart Kauffman Ville Radieuse Le Corbusier E-Grow Italo Calvino Colin Rowe ‘collage city’ Kenneth Frampton |