The Urban Performance

"Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data-classification to the mode of pattern recognition."

Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage.

In the Industrial Age, the urban environment was designed by bureaucrats.
Representatives selected by the people.
Vote one, vote all.
Separate and divide.
Divide and conquer.
A zone for this and a zone for that.
A factory here and not there.
Not this with that.

In the Information Age, the urban environment is designed by the people.
Governments no longer control the economy.
The Internet is a self-selecting system.
Urban Planning by participation.
Vote one, vote all the time.
A single zone of everything.
A factory here and a house next door.
A mix of forces meeting performance standards.
This goes with that, goes with this.


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