City Sci-fi City Science class lecture <2023-02-15 Wed>

Sanfransokyo

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bio-city

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toy demo

diversity is good for sustainable growth (Glaeser, Edward, 2013)

Collage city (Rowe, Colin and Koetter, Fred, 1984)

is this concept new ?? -> no

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Figure 1: FrDr, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Villa Hadriana (AD 120)

The complex of the villa contains many structures from different cultures. For example, the villa has a small Nile River running through it that relates back to the Egyptian Nile river.

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Figure 2: Arata Isozaki Haishi Exhibition (1997)

las vegas….etc

  • can we formalize this process of bri-collaging cities?
  • This is only a ’single player game’.
  • software industry ’collage’ -> github

city scope

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  • high resolution (hard to contruct naratives compared to the toy)
  • “zoning”? people usually do not think cities as a remixes of zoning codes (max hight. FAR, buildable area, …etc)
  • in front of a table/web interface: starting to be a “multi player game”, except we lack in some way to decide

we need to vote !!!

Mirage City Platform 1

  • more interaction (attention?) when provided more information

MAGI System from evangelion

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  • CASPER -> woman(mistress)
  • MELCHIOR -> scientist
  • BALTHASAR -> motherhood

unanimous vote accross three ai systems that are weighted differently what if it was majority rule??

namaph (media lab project site)

  • transparency is a ’nice to have’

DAOs let you vote on the blockchain; gains transparency.

New Rousseau Machine

  • DAOs tends to lean on direct democracy.
  • social choice tells you, its not that simple.

references

Glaeser, Edward (2013). Triumph of the city: How our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier, New York, NY: Penguin Books. doi.

Rowe, Colin and Koetter, Fred (1984). Collage city, MIT press.

Footnotes:

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Haishi Exhibition. The term “Haishi” is 海市 in chinese which direct translation is “sea city”, which means mirage.

Date: 2023-02-15 Wed 01:09