Stewart Brand – “Cities And Time”
April 11th, 02005 by Simone Davalos
A world made of cities
Cities are the human organizations with the greatest longevity but also the fastest rate of change. Just now the world is going massively and unstoppably urban (governments everywhere are trying to stop it, with zero success). In a globalized world, city states are re-emerging as a dominant economic player. Environmental consequences and opportunities abound.
As the author of HOW BUILDINGS LEARN I kept getting asked to give talks on “How Cities Learn.” With a little research I found that cities do indeed “learn” (adapt) impressively, but what cities mainly do is teach. They teach civilization…
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Posted on June 25th, 2007 at 8:10 am
An updated version of this talk that Stewart gave at the Commonwealth club is now available on Fora.tv
http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1172
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