Now City

A line of inquiry focused on long-term urbanism with a mixture of speculative design and a concern for future generations.

Topics

These topics are roughly ordered by higher level goal setting to more applied practical matters.

• Entropy max: A framework for thinking about long-term goals
• SLR max: Urban design for the maximum extent of sea level rise
• Organized migration: Moving billions of people away from extreme heat at the equator to newly arable land
• Post placebased solutions: What happens to cities when place is replaced by movement
• Smart urbanism: City-technology interfaces, privacy, trust, and ecology
• FAR 3: A pattern language for resource efficient-walkable urbanism
• Robodistricts: What is a robot district and how can it make human districts even better
• Permacity: Permaculture ethos applies to urbanism