4. How can we maximize our needs today?
We can maximize our needs by reconsidering our wants.
We must commonly alter our wants so they reflect what is needed for a healthy interconnected civilization on a delicately finite planet.
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4. How can we maximize our needs today?
We can maximize our needs by reconsidering our wants.
We must commonly alter our wants so they reflect what is needed for a healthy interconnected civilization on a delicately finite planet.
6. Should a city stay in its current form forever?
No. A good city, like a good tool, should reflect its purpose and function.
Cities should be constantly learning, improving and reflecting the collective and imaged ethos of its occupants.
The physical form of a city will inspire and catalyze cultural crystallizations that will be inscribed in formless media. The content of the formless media will change the form of the city as reflected in the configurations of our past and possible experiences.
8. What is the polar opposite to the city?
Equilibrium.
10. Is agriculture the next form of urbanism?
If we define agriculture historically as the cultivation of organisms, then some of the most profound innovations in agriculture are on the near horizon of biotechnology.
The communities and buildings of cities will be the fields and fertilizer of the new age of agriculture, sprouting living things that help us find new life. Organisms will take root that produce endless harvests, including energy (food and otherwise), medicine and environmental assistance.
Our deepest societal values and civilizational needs will make themselves known through our collective biotechnological agricultural practices.
How we engineer the undertakings of living things will establish the next form of urbanism as a platform for the birthing and reflective pondering of life itself.