Artificial Quote by Jean Baudrillard
“In years to come cities will stretch out horizontally and will be non-urban (Los Angeles). After that, they will bury themselves in the ground and will no longer have names. Everything will become infrastructure bathed in artificial light and energy. The brilliant superstructure, the crazy verticality will have disappeared. New York is the final fling of this baroque verticality, this centrifugal excentricity, before the horizontal dismantling arrives, and the subterranean implosion that will follow.”
About This Quote
Source Speech: Interview, 1990s, Los Angeles, USA
Future cities will become flat, underground, and lose individual identity, turning into uniform infrastructure bathed in artificial light.
In simple terms: Cities will become flat, anonymous infrastructure.
Key Takeaway
Expect and, plan for adaptable, resilient urban design.
Themes
urbanism
technology
future
identity
environment
Mood
reflective
critical
speculative
Type
philosophical
futuristic
urban theory
When to use this quote
- urban planning
- architecture
- policy making
- environmental design
- real estate development
Key Concepts
postmodernism
hyperreality
spatial theory
sociotechnical systems
Questions to Reflect On
- How might we preserve cultural identity in homogenized spaces?
- What design strategies can balance efficiency with human scale?
A Different Perspective
This vision may overlook human need for community and cultural diversity.
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