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When Suburbs become Urban RAND CITY: The Case for a Full-Scale Urbanization of the Rand around Brussels. A presentation from Proff Alexander D'hooghe, Director, MITPlatform for Permanent Modernity, ORG
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When Suburbs become Urban RAND CITY: The Case for a Full-Scale Urbanization of the Rand around Brussels.
Early suburbanization in Los Angeles
A Levitt development company postcard: its early post-war suburban homes celebrate 25 years of ongoing development success.
The USA East CoastA case of sociological urbanization: increased diversity, density, poverty-wealth oppositions, and a complete dominance of hardscapes, tarmacs and infrastructures
= SUBURBIA is a development space defined by an idealized nature:
GREY GOO = A development space form which nature as a perceived dominant structure has been exhausted, but in which the city as a form of cultural attraction is not present
Nor t h- Eas t e r n Gr e y Goo
Dar k e s t = hi ghe s t i nt e ns i t y of de v e l opme nt
Bos t on
Ne w Yor k/ Ne w Je r s e y
Phi l ade l phi a
Bal t i mor e
Washington DC
Cl e ve l and
Pi t t s bur gh
De t r oi t
Chi c ago
St Loui s
Mi l wauke e
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Northeastern United States Population in Grey Goo
Northeaste
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nited States G
ery Goo Land Cover
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The material apparatus of grey goo is aging - it has gone through more than one cycle of users or inhabitants, and as a result it has been depreciating, deteriorating, and patched up again...as one of the first parts of the world subjected to a long and merciless suburbanization, it is here that the long-term resiliency of the post-urban logic will be first tested.
Los Angeles:A case of gradual densification: lot by lot, parcel by parcel, this has become from the thinnest city (in the 1950s), by now the densest city.
Edge Cities: Tyson’s Corner, VA is an example of an edge city – fast urbanization of an area with a priviliegd centrality in the interstate and highway network, but no longer close to any historical city.
The RANDAn urbanizing suburbia that dares not speak its name
ShenzhenThis suburb simply out-accelerated the city it first depended on and became bigger in size in less than 20 years.
New Infrastructural Thinking for an Urbanizing Rand
Promenade Samuel de Champlain, Quebec, Canada
Burle Marx
Burle Marx
Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazilie
2 De nieuwe Gordelboulevard. Precedenten
