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“Cities of Agency”
Inflection Journal,
vol. 2: Projection (November 2015): 126-131.
As cities globalise they homogenise, growing more universal as they adopt standardised practices of everyday life and civic function. A new norm of hyper-densification is being established across the globe, one that has thrown off the proportions of private to public property in a frenzy of laissez-faire development. If watching from above, one would see an aerial map blot out as solid figures envelop the ground, eating into the negative spaces of urban movement and utility.
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What resource, then, can be appropriated and tapped into? We will need something so ubiquitous and necessary to the operation of the Generic City that it evades being phased out, but is tangible and reduced enough to meet with its citizens directly. This is what we might call everyday infrastructure.




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