urbanNext Reframing the World as One City - urbanNext
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Très beau projet, signalé par Naomi Hanakata à Singapour
“The City of 7 Billion. A Constructed World,” a recent exhibition and symposium at the Yale School of Architecture organized by Bimal Mendis and Joyce Hsiang, opens up some provocative and important questions regarding the geographies of contemporary urbanization. While it is widely asserted that urbanization has today become a “global” process, this claim has been grounded upon quite a wide range of spatial conceptions—of the city and the urban; of the territorial organization of urbanization; and of the world, the earth, the globe and the planet. Indeed, while the Yale exhibit’s title implies that the entire world is becoming a single “City of 7 Billion,” its curators and the other contributors actually present a far more differentiated vision of worldwide urbanization based upon a plethora of indicators, epistemologies, conceptual frameworks and representational techniques. In this sense, despite the singular perspective implied by its title, the Yale exhibition opens up a productive debate on the variegated spatial imprints of urbanization across places, regions, territories and scales.