Information and form in the contemporary city
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5821/palimpsesto.19.8259Keywords:
Urban planning, information, big data, chaotic order, architecture.Abstract
The structure of the city owes much to the way in which its information is produced. The most basic one - which is to understand the cities hierarchies, flows, way of functioning, as well as our location within it - has historically required a physical support capable of conveying this information (e.g. its traces, geometries, axes). Moreover, if the need for information historically determined the urban shape and thus its understanding, what happens when both factors become disconnected, as it is occurs nowadays? What happens when information about the city does not require a physical support any longer?
The reality that is starting to become noticeable, is that the city (and its uses and flows) is starting to be reorganised under new paradigms that do not depend directly on the urban shape. Individual decision-making, multiplied and aggregated by new information systems, allow for diversity in the positioning and location of uses. These changes are predicting and advancing a city that is even more dispersed and multi-layered in its order
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