Aberdeen's Garden City proposal aimed to create a new park within the city. Although the project has not gone ahead yet for various reasons, one of the possible reasons particularly stood out.
"LSE’s Professor Richard Sennett talks
about the ‘need for danger’ within modern cities. I don’t think he means
real danger, but raw, urban spaces that are unmonitored, unmediated and
uninfluenced by other agendas"
Like the Garden City in The Ultimate City, maybe there is something missing in this new futuristic vision - similar to the way the Halloway felt there was something missing from his utopian home. He goes looking for the unknown over the suspension bridge, and felt he needed something else. He builds his vision and others feeling the same "need for danger" follow.
This could be something we explore when we make our utopian city - a plastic uniformity or a constrained environment that appears perfect but is not.
Hotels in Crates
Boxpark Shoreditch has dubbed itself as the world's first pop-up mall. Ever store - clothes shop or cafe - is fitted inside a shipping container that can be moved and "pop up" anywhere.
Could this be applied to a hotel? A container with only a necessary amount of space, raw and not trying to hide what it is.
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