Places to See: A Field of Gleaming Towers for New Cities
The “New City” is growing at a phenomenal pace. Cities in China and the Persian Gulf have inexplicably developed overnight – packed with massive civic infrastructures, flooding populations and strong internal economies. The New York Times takes a look at The New, New City. Can a field of gleaming towers without a single identity or a recognizeable center be considered a city? The evolution of the new city is reshaping how architects, civic engineers and people interpret what it means to be a city in the 21st century.
Here’s a short excerpt from the article: “’Don’t tell anyone,’ Rem Koolhaas said to me several years ago as we headed down the F.D.R. Drive in New York, ‘but the 20th-century city is over. It has nothing new to teach us anymore. Our job is simply to maintain it.’ Koolhaas’s viewpoint is widely shared by close observers of the evolution of cities. But not even Koolhaas, it seems, was completely prepared for what would come next…”
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