The next metabolism?

摘要

The traditional modernistic understanding of splitting functions and places would supposedly create a hygienic, smooth and predictable world. Yet in recent decades, a group of urban activists together with architects and policy makers have starte d to formulate alternative ways of living in the city. Community roof gardens, vertical forests, urban farming, bicycle workshops, fab labs and microbreweries are becoming part of city developments and programming new urban biotopes. Real mixed situations are emerging where consumption, work, living and production are blended with each other. This jumbled, interactive and complex reality hasn't yet arrived on a full city scale.