The changing status of the city, of architecture, of urbanism

The third issue of Verb boogazine is about the changing status of the city in the electronic era. It looks at the impact of electronic technology on urban reality, the forms it is conceived in and the new phenomena that generate it, but also on the forms in which all aspects of the space of the city are experienced and lived. Faced with an increasing blurring of the frontiers between the physical and the informational dimension of cities, we explore the relation between virtual connections - the effect of digital networks on the spaces and uses of the city - and persistent role of architecture in creating physical connections between people, programs and uses. How can architecture act as a generator of urban activity, an activator of links and uses ? Featuring works and texts by OMA (Seattle Public Library, Almere Masterplan), Crimson (Wimby!), Atelier Bow-Wow, Kazys Varnelis, PLOT (Maritime Youth House, Copenhagen Harbor Baths), Kazuhiro Kojima (Space Block Hanoi Model), Michael Bell (Stateless housing). Featuring the Palast der Republik story in Berlin, Chip City by Shinobu Hashimoto and Rients Dijkstra, and Sim City, which contrasts the real city - product of virtual processes - with virtual cities created by real people, via computer-based simulations.
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