CONTENTS
FOREWORD Mark Burry xi
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Tom Verebes xiii
INTRODUCTION Tom Verebes 1
PART I CONTEXT: ENDURANCE, OBSOLESCENCE, AND CHANGE- A THEORETICAL FOUNDATION5
CHAPTER 1 THE CITY AS CULTURAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL EXPRESSION Tom Verebes 7
1.1 Globalization and Networks 7
1.2 The Edge of Chaos 13
1.3 The Associative Logic of Urbanism 15
CHAPTER 2 PROJECTIVE ARCHITECTURES: THE QUESTION OF BORDERS IN A CONNECTED
WORLD Marina Lathouri 20
CHAPTER 3 CONVERSATION 1 Dana Cuff with Tom Verebes 23
CHAPTER 4 THE NEW NEW Tom Verebes 28
4.1 Ancient China and The New28
4.2 Urban Europe: A Brief History of Its Industrialization and Planning 30
4.3The Paradigm of the New World Instant City 34
4.4 The Dubai Mirage 36
CHAPTER 5 INFORMAL CITY: DESIGN AS POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT
Jorge Fiori 40
CHAPTER 6 CONVERSATION 2 Xu Weiguo, Xu Feng and Gao Yan 48
CHAPTER 7 URBANIZATION AND ERASURE Tom Verebes 54
7.1 The Trouble with Speed Freaks 54
7.2 Ghosts of the Past 57
7.3 An Ecological Model for Twenty-First Century Urbanism 60
7.4 The Problem of Functionality, Endurance, and Obsolescence 62
7.5 Time, Change, and Adaptation 64
CHAPTER 8 PUBLIC-SPHERES: ATMOSPHERE AND ADAPTABLE SPACE
IN HONG KONG Jonathan D. Solomon 68
Something in the Air 69
Hong Kong's Public-Sphere 71
The City as Natural Artifice 73
CHAPTER 9 CONVERSATION 3 Matthew Pryor with Tom Verebes 75
CASE STUDY CIANHAI MASTERPLAN, SHENZEN, CHINA James Corner Field Operations 80
CASE STUDY FLOWING GARDENS, INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL EXPO, XI'AN,
CHINA Plasma Studio 82
PART II CONCEPTS/PARADIGMS: NEW PARADIGMS AND PRACTICES IN URBANISM85
CHAPTER 10 THE DEATH OF MASTERPLANNING IN THE AGE
OFINDETERMINACY Tom Verebes 87
10.1 Planning and/or Emergence 87
10.2 Teleological Fallacies of the Masterplanner 92
10.3 Principles of Uncertainty: Planning after the Global Financial Crisis 95
10.4 Complex systems, Equilibrium, and Emergence 99
10.5 Parametric Patterns and Models of Evolutionary Urbanism 106
CHAPTER 11 FREE-MARKET URBANISM: URBANISM BEYOND PLANNING
Patrik Schumacher 118
CHAPTER 12 Conversation 4 Tom Barker and Tom Verebes 123
CASE STUDY ONE NORTH SINGAPORE SCIENCE HUB, SINGAPORE Zaha Hadid Architects129
CASE STUDY URBAN CHINA RESEARCH OCEAN CN132
CASE STUDY KAILI ETHNIC CULTURAL COMPOUND, GUIZHOU, CHINA dotA and Shanghai
Tongji Urban Planning and Design Institute 135
PART Ill METHODOLOGIES: TOOLS AND MOVING TARGETS 139
CHAPTER 13 A NEW TOOLBOX FOR ADAPTABLE MASTERPLANNING Tom Verebes 141
13.1 Models as Information 141
13.2 Parameter Space, Solution Space, Urban Space 144
13.3 Simulation and Gaming Environments as Management Systems 148
CHAPTER 14 MORPHOGENETIC URBANISM: TOWARD A MATERIALIST APPROACH TO
MASTERPLANNING Peter Trummer 153
The Aggregated Figure 154
The Ground as Matter 156
CASE STUDY PARAMETRIC PEARL RIVER DELTA OCEAN CN 158
CASE STUDY SERIAL SYSTEMS: REMODELING HONG KONG HOUSING OCEAN CN 162
CASE STUDYDENSITY AND OPENNESS REVISITED: RECODING BUILDING BULK IN HONG
KONG Rocker-Lange Architects 165
CHAPTER 15 COMPUTATIONAL URBANISM Tom Verebes 168
15.1 The Evolution of Computational Methodologies and Urbanism 168
15.2 Automation, Optioneering, and Optimization 175
15.3 Parametric Urbanism 180
CHAPTER 16 PARAMETRIC URBANISM REDUX: URBAN DESIGN AND COMPLEXITY IN AN
AGE OF INFINITE COMPUTING David Jason Gerber 186
CHAPTER 17 CONVERSATION 5 Su Yunsheng with Tom Verebes 193
CASE STUDY YAN JIAO HUA RUN 4D CITY, HEBEI PROVINCE, CHINA dotA and OCEAN CN 198
CASE STUDYMICA URBAN PICTURESQUE, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND Group8 Architects and
Kaisersrot 205
CASE STUDY THE MEGABLOCK AND ITS POPULATED FIELD, AND THE AGGREGATION
OF STREETS PeterTrummer, Associative Design Program, Berlage Institute 209
CASE STUDY ENDURANCE AND OBSOLESCENCE TOOLBOX: STUDIES OF ADAPTABLE
MASTERPLANNING >The University of Hong Kong 214
PART IV PROJECTIONS: PROTOTYPING MULTIPLE FUTURES 221
CHAPTER 18 ENDURANCE, OBSOLESCENCE, AND THE ADAPTIVE CITY Tom Verebes 223
18.1 New Prototypical Practices 223
18.2 Typological Variants and Topological Transformations 226
18.3 Icons and Innovation 230
18.4 Control, Resilience, and Change 232
CASE STUDY DEEP GROUND: REGENERATION MASTERPLAN FOR LONGGANG CENTER AND
LONGCHENG SQUARE, SHENZHEN, CHINA Groundlab 237
CASE STUDY XIN TIAN Dl FACTORY H, HANGZHOU, CHINA Serie Architects 241
CASE STUDY REGENERATION OF PHOENIX SHOPPING STREET BEIJING, CHINA XWG Studio 245
CASE STUDY ORDOS MUSEUM, ORDOS, INNER MONGOLIA, CHINA MAD 248
CASE STUDY LIANTANG/HEUNG YUEN WAI BOUNDARY CONTROL POINT PASSENGER TERMINAL
BUILDING, HONG KONG SAR/SHENZHEN, CHINA Hong Kong Parametric Design
Association, dotA, and OCEAN CN 253
CASE STUDY COUNTER PART CITIES: FUTUREPORT, HONG KONG SAR, SHENZHEN,
CHINA The University of Hong Kong Research Team, Led by Tom Verebes 259
CHAPTER 19 CONVERSATION 6 Brett Steele with Tom Verebes 266
CONCLUSION Tom Verebes 273
BIBLIOGRAPHY 275
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 283
INDEX 291