zenon's city - prolegomena to a critique of urban reason
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This presentation "Zenon's City" was part of a lecture held at Leipzig University at Dec 2010. Its topic may be summarized as "Critique of Urban Reason". As such, it may serve as the adequate theoretical layer for any kind of urban modelling. Key concepts are growth and differentiation, including "melting & removal", associativity (of immaterial networks), networks, complexity and self-organization. monnooTRANSCRIPT
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Klaus Wassermann
Zenon‘s City
Preliminary Suggestions on Urban Reason
Hot Spots :: der Stadtentwicklung
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Hot Spot :: Perspective
ONE
MANY
ANY
personal
formal
medial
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Critique of Geometry
Critique of Urban Reason
Which is the Essence of City?
Preliminary Remarksmethodological issues
as a figure of thought in Architecture
Proto-Schemata:Growth-network-Complexity-Information
Potential Elements of Construction
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Begin of the first Part:
Preliminary Remarksand a short methodological warm-Up
((( aspects )))
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Is it possible to plan „CITY“?
Is it possible to plan „URBANITY“?
theoría: Anschauung, Überlegung, Einsicht
theory = (ortho-)regulation of the genesis and parameterisation of models
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City Development – Linguistics of a Figure
the C
ityDevelopment
of
of a
city
-lik
e
Evolu
tion
Plan
Engineering
run of„events“
Th
eory
Perform
ances
pace
time
Individua
l
Logics
Growth
pla
inly
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Methodologicals (I)challenges & constraints by
Disziplinary Perspectivesanalysis of power, conflict-/consumism-analytics (Weber, Durkheim)
Normative (naturalistic) Fallacies Romanticisms and Idealism (Feldtkeller, Mumford)
Reductionisms, IdeologicalizationsMaterialism: statistical (Hillier), naturalistic (Mitscherlich),
formal (L.Wirth, Burgess), cybernetic (Luhmann)
„Projectionism“Import of highly integrated Theories: knowledge (Matthiesen),
evolution (Schamp)
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Aspekte und ihr WechselAspects become visible only in their exchange
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Methodologicals (II)
Structure
Element
Mechanism
cave definitionem !!!
„City“ is obviously difficult to grasp
?Heterotopia Koolhaas/Foucault
with strong symbolistic Components
SyntheticComparatistics
no existential questions please ... What „is“ ...
serious story telling
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Begin of the First Part:
Critique of Geometry
Influence, Reach and Overloadings
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The Holiness of Geometryfirst procedure, which promised correctness of a construction ...
independent of ...
locationtimeperson
in opposition to symbolisation
Safety was achieved through the
linkage o structure (axiomatics) and
values (Sinnanspruch)
narration, poetics
Universals
There are none!
are there...?
justific
ation?
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Fatal inherited Diseaserole of geometry
by Euclid quite unsuitable positioning of axiomatics
things, that are directly (unmediated) clearWhat, if there is no epistemic directness ?
Primacy of Interpretation
... then axioms would moult into interesting rules of games.
first heureka-experience by the power of „ideomatics“
complementary: Primacy of Modelling
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Inherited Disease (II): Phenotypical FoldingsG
eom
etry
Cen
terC
on
dit
ion
alcausal chain
Causality
AxiomaticsD
efinition
If - Then
Proof
Mat
hem
atik
CyberneticsScience
Juristerei
Frankfurter Schule
control technologyIT
Frege
Positivism
Shannon
Luhmann
navigator
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Towards the Sun in a straight Line...
City (?) as a kind of Accidens
Karlsruhe m
id 17th century
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Obsessions on Centers
Palmanova: Inhabiting or Freedom plans for new garden city,18th century
Pal
man
ova „London“
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Nowa Huta (Pl) – City (?) for Heroes of Production
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geometry just yesterday
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The Roaring Twenties...
bold utterings
serious issues
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geometry today: according to human Measure?
urban?
progressive? well developed?
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of course, Bucky-Boy won‘t miss...
The straight-lineObsession
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Logistics: the straight regime of Causality
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CCD Registers: Logistics of Information
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The APOLLO Story 1969
the Atlas-phantasm of
the fixed point
the total triumph of the global
equation
Oh holy Grale of geometric Modernism
the steady pole
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The Story 2009
never only ONE,
though not yet
just MANY,
but ARBITRARY(as YOU<!> like)Fixed Points
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the first and (so far) the only
Compass for topo- logicalSpaces
Owner:
Sparrow, Jack
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Zäsur
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What can not be drawn (any more)...
About
Ichn
ogra
phia
Ort
hogr
aphi
a at the
End
of
Geo
Metry
what we cannotspeak
Sce
nogr
aphi
a
The end of Expressibility
Formalisability
Axiomatisability
...has to be calculated, may be rendered...has to be calculated, may be rendered
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just a different rendering
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What can not be drawn (any more)...
freezed to state
freely choosable point in time
not an algorithm any more
semi-open results
Reaction-Diffusion Mechanism
Michael Hansmeyer
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What can not be drawn...
Schuytgraf, NL
real-time
constraint
optimization
120 clients
1000‘s of constraints
hierarchy of goals
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ethz caad
What can not be drawn...
Globus Zh, CH
pre-specificdesign
das differential ofarchitectonicmatter
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What can not be drawn...
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End of the First Part:
Critique of GeometryThe End of axiomatic Universals
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Begin of the Second Part:
Critique of Urban Reason
((( which are the essences of any thinking about the City, beyond of any specific theories? )))
Conditions for a Thinking of City-Becoming
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Layout (genealogy) of our Critique
Network
Growth
Associativity
Complexity
Self-Organisation
Cat
egor
yO
peration
Information
formalisable structural models
Efficacy Causality
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das einfachste Wachstum
entlang des Atomgitters: Mikro=Makro
repräsentationale Symmetrie
::by attachment (from the outside)
vollständig de-individualisierte „atomare“ Module
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::by attachment (from the outside)
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::by attachment (from inside)
the principle:fixing of singular points & differentiating & repeatingfinding of a particular point: 2-Component System
fraktal growth
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welwitschia
Welwitschia – a living fossil
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Plant
Plant (-like)
Growth in Plants2-Component-System at singular mikro fields (meristeme)
self-affine replication
added complexity by repetition of processes
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::by attachment (from outside & inside)
added complexity by standardised regulation
primitive division of labor
swarm
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::by attachment (from outside & inside)
Michael Batty, 2008Caglioni & Giovanni, 2003
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::differentiation towards the inside
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::differentiation towards the inside
verticalve
rtic
al
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::differentiation towards the inside: embryo
locally-induced growth,foldings AND Apoptosis !
fractality establishesonly lokal any more
„blue prints“
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Koolhaas, an embryologist?
melting
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Embryonic Growth
added Complexity by deeply layeredand embedding regulation
gain ofadaptivity
and potential
Differentation towards
the inside
emergence ofcontexts and individuality
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::differentation towards the inside ...
innere Kompartimente können umarrangiert werden: potentielles schmelzen, Fusion von Räumen und Membranen
Zuweisung von „innen“ / „aussen“ muss immer wieder neu verhandelt werden
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Growth, Differentiation: ImmaterialGrowth
Konrad Lorenzchanges in behavior precede changes of morphology
Evolution
Training
Learning, Memory, Habits, Virtualisation, Mediatisation
unfolding
structural dynamics
scaling
immaterial differentiation
changes inmorphology
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Interestingness and Patterns of Growth
which patterns
are the most frequently used?
associative (as a „body without organs“)
which arethe most promising?
anorganic, crystalline
swarm-basedplant-likeembryonic
informationallogistic, optimizing (leafs)
learning & behavior
organic
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interim resultCritique of Urban Reason
Growth
temporal dynamicstemporal dynamics of the transformation of structures
overcoming of the „contingencycontingency--hypothesis“
transition to evolutiveevolutive processes
new questions: regulative factorsregulative factors, e.g. for continuity, melting
typology typology of differentiation processes (epi/genetics)
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Genealogy of our Critique: Part 2
Networks
Growth
Associativity
Complexity
Self-Organisation
Cat
egor
yO
peration
Information
formalisable structural models
Efficacy Causality
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living things
social issues
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Complexity: Bestandsaufnahmeclear and dark bright and
labyrinthinedark and convoluted
Luhmann, Sozial Systeme: „Complexity is that information, which is missing for the system, in order to measure, comprehend and describe its surrounding environment completely.“
Self-preservation develops into a problem, „since for any system the surrounding environment is more complex than the system itself."
Complexity as a cipher for non-understandability
Complexity als inevitable external threat
Complexity as a syntactic-algorithmic entity
definitely ineligible for
real contexts
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Context of Complexity
complexity is not reducible
makroskopichproperties are notdescribable on the mikroscopic levelin principal
complexity involves strong emergence
strong emergence is indispensable for adaptivity
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What is the minimal, sufficient
(and necessary)
description of emergence ?
What is the minimal, sufficient
(and necessary)
description of emergence ?
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weak, farweak, far
strong, closestrong, close
micro-antagonistic self-referential 2-component system
Turing P
attern
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a mystical-opaque concept
is being transformed
into a non-deterministic
parameter space
Elementarisation of Complexity
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
Dissipation
Antagonistic Forces
Standardisation
Active Compartmentalization
systemic Knots
reaction-diffusion-system, dialectics as population
flow of entropy, consumption of energy
sign theoretical: semiotic, algorithmic, geno-/phenotype, code, rule
transition from order to organisation; demands for: left-overs, death, reduction
internal model-based control provokes latentantagonisms, „self-sustaining complexity“
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RD-Prozesse: Besonderheiten
absolutely„impermeable“epistemologicseparation
mikro
makro
molekules, cells, ants, words, events, human individuals, actants in a network
descriptive categories can NOT be applied to
the other layer mutually!
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interim resultCritique of Urban reason
Complexity
Elementarisation allows for Operationalisabilityof creative Processes
objective diagnosis / prognosis ofstasis, Adaptivity or chaos-like melting
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Genealogy of Critique U.R.: Part 3
Networks
Growth
Associativity
Complexity
Self-Organisation
Cat
egor
yO
peration
Information
formalisable struktural models
Efficacy Causality
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Networks
Cities are networks, ok, so what? a TRIVIAL remark?
Concept had not been in use before 1980.
Network Knots and Links (everything is network, isn‘t it?)
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From different Worlds
Logistic Networks
Associative Networks
geometric-causal
algebraic-informational
effect-orientiet::basic typology of networks
temporally neutral, „real-time“
actualizes just as operation = as sth temporal
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hubs, scale-free
hierarchical
fractal
deterministic
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rhizomatic
Growth ?
redundant
recurrent
probabilistic
random density
Learning !
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...... a powerfula powerful andand scalablescalable formalformal
modelmodel
mapping of n-dimensional descriptions mapping of n-dimensional descriptions
onto a m(2+)-dimensional maponto a m(2+)-dimensional map
self-organizing map (SOM)self-organizing map (SOM)
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Associativity in the Space of the City
Meta-Stability of Neighborhoods
not reducible to the reasoning power of individuals
“Once set up, a city is a great sorting mechanism
which ... infallibly selects out of the population
as a whole the individuals best suited to live in
a particular region or a particular milieu.”Robert Park, 1952: Human Communities.
Zürich Augustinergasse,Farbraum Stadt, 2010
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Associativity and Memory
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Logistic Networks
are the great Optimizers
of identified Relations
in (quasi-)material contexts
useful
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are the great inducers and inventors
of potential Relations,
yet to be constructed
Associative Netwerks
Randolations
in purely informational contexts
interesting
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an
urban- material-proto-inter-net in steel &
glass
The Manhattan-Syndromthe „Urban“ & the Web share important properties
associativity
abundant heterotopias
information as essential driver
high density, intensive flows
mediagenicity
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web(b)ed Urbanity = Wurbanitythe new mash-up: the Urbane und das Web
descriptional scheme: abstracting from both = WURB
development of cities not (anymore just) as built substanceInternet of Things (150 web devices/person by 2015) local semi-virtualisation of physical processesextending social realities as kind of „mixed reality“ New Media, new Spaces, new habits, new densification
New kinds of „Urbanity“
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interim resultCritique of Urban Reason
Associativity
description of dynamic aggregations
dynamics of qualitative properties becomes accessible
„collective“ memory processes are rendered explicable
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Schemata of a Critique of Urban Reason
Networks
Growth
Associativity
complexity
Cat
egor
yO
peration
formalisable Struktural Models
formalisable
skalogen
active Comparatistics
operationalisable
interdependent Conditions for Thinking the Costruction of the City
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End of the second Part:
Critique of Urban Reason
conditions for a thinking of constructing the city
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Begin of the third Part:
Potential Elements of Construction
((( getting operational )))
(semi-)abstract conditions for a City-becoming
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Conditions of the Possibility of Urbanity
Logistics material as well as immaterial, visible body of rules,organisatorically adaptive, „real-time“ function
irreducible dimensional construction
Participation real-time, „mixed-reality“, and densified
Continuity organisatorical-(quasi-)material
Heterotopia informatorical-ordinal, open, manifold and mediatised antagonisms
„Abundance“ local, accessible, due to suitable scaling
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Entwicklungsfelder Urbaner Vernunft
Stadt densified potential for the creation of organisation from order, often limited tophysical-material aspects
residential areas
tradition-bound order of individual roles as predecessors of institutions, often centralistic, oligarchic or autokratic
Urbanität volatilised AND virtualised conditions for „Citiness“ in the realm of the immaterial;in the future tendentially more as „Wurbanity“
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Zenon‘s City ...
A field made from differential, volatile, sprouting inertial reference systems! ... which as a (semi-)autonomous entity develop its own character and its own power (as potential)
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Thanks !