Predictions for the next 25 years, for architecture, “What constitutes a ‘city’ will change”
Posted on | January 3, 2011 |
I am done publicly posting my resolutions & predictions. So I am posting real experts predictions. “The Obeserver” has predictions for the next 25 years, from technology, to arts, to politics, to architecture. I am posting an excerpt below. For architecture…
In 2035, most of humanity will live in favelas. This will not be entirely wonderful, as many people will live in very poor housing, but it will have its good side. It will mean that cities will consist of series of small units organised, at best, by the people who know what is best for themselves and, at worst, by local crime bosses.
Cities will be too big and complex for any single power to understand and manage them. They already are, in fact. The word “city” will lose some of its meaning: it will make less and less sense to describe agglomerations of tens of millions of people as if they were one place, with one identity. If current dreams of urban agriculture come true, the distinction between town and country will blur. Attempts at control won’t be abandoned, however, meaning that strange bubbles of luxury will appear, like shopping malls and office parks. To be optimistic, the human genius for inventing social structures will mean that new forms of settlement we can’t quite imagine will begin to emerge.
All this assumes that environmental catastrophe doesn’t drive us into caves. Nor does it describe what will happen in Britain, with a roughly stable population and a planning policy dedicated to preserving the status quo as much as possible. Britain in 25 years’ time may look much as it does now, which is not hugely different from 25 years ago. Rowan Moore, Observer architecture correspondent
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