http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/03/21/ordered-versus-less-ordered-modern-cities/ mind/tech bazar from outer space Sun, 11 May 2008 23:01:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/03/21/ordered-versus-less-ordered-modern-cities/#comment-461321 Scott Smith Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:38:23 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/03/21/ordered-versus-less-ordered-modern-cities/#comment-461321 And yet picture number two is very much what it will look like. Megacities and megaslums in the so-called third world are growing at a rate new, planned cities couldn't hope to track. Infrastructure suppliers are already at their limits, so clean and hygenic cities can't be maintained (outside of Singapore and Dubai?). Digital overlays on these less ordered cities will look a bit out of place, shiny bits sprinkled in amongst the chaos. And yet picture number two is very much what it will look like. Megacities and megaslums in the so-called third world are growing at a rate new, planned cities couldn’t hope to track. Infrastructure suppliers are already at their limits, so clean and hygenic cities can’t be maintained (outside of Singapore and Dubai?). Digital overlays on these less ordered cities will look a bit out of place, shiny bits sprinkled in amongst the chaos.

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