series 1: critical mass
series 1: critical mass
As population demographics change in the age of the global economy, cities are expanding exponentially and enveloping their environs and interstitial spaces with agglomerative gusto. What has been considered ‘sprawl’ is more and more becoming the model for urban development, as cities grow together/towards each other to achieve critical mass. As cities experience mitosis, bifurcation, reunification, and coagulation, how is city form impacted by this process? From the overlay of multiple forms does a new pattern emerge?
los angeles
berlin
shanghai
cairo