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The ultimate pop-up city in my mind is autonomous cars. Well more like autonomous cities, through a collection of city blocks that move? How my thinking goes: if you get autonomous cars (which we already have via Waymo) eventually it won't just be to replace Uber. It'll be a new kind of mobile third space: a place to sleep (between cities) or a pharmacy will come to you, or a mobile pizza truck will come to you, or a place for couples to have sex etc (already has happened on Cruise btw, didn't take long) If you go down this thinking long enough, what used to be stable (storefronts) get is no longer stable, and anything that used to be situated in one place (a shop, a park, a parking lot, the cleaners, etc) the city becomes more movable. You can configure different configurations of shops and cities and nature to come to you or to be configured (by the city, or by groups) in different ways. The Pop-up city becomes more dynamic, a self-assembling and ephemeral city that makes us question, what is a place?
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This largely echoes a world building project I’ve had on the back burner for some time, called Autopia, which describes a future in which the entire world is self-governed but overseen by democratic councils. One of the general theses is that the built environment becomes more and more mobile, modular, and self-organizing based off the momentary needs of society and people. I took inspiration from an architectural movement originating in Japan, called Metabolism, that imagined our buildings as comprised of small, interchangeable components.
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