THE METROPOLIS AS INTEGRAL SUBSTANCE

摘要

The word 'substance' denotes what is permanent in changing things. Neither generic nor specific, the next metropolis is a total substance. Everything is in everything. Nothing relates to anything. It is a historical chance for urbanism and architecture to forge a new alliance and build the metropolitan conditions of tomorrow. The goal is not to assign an ostentatious mix or diversity (to the metropolis), but to increase exchange (between the near and the near, and the not so near and the far) inside the micro-scale itself: the scale of the spatial-metropolitan situation. This is the scale at which a non-nostalgic reading of the city and of the metropolis as substance could be rebuilt, but not as a system.