Future Mobility Urbanism

Models of Future Mobile Cities

We always have dreams of a better, different or more idealistic environment: With Broadacre City Frank Lloyd Wright was ahead of his time. But his misinterpretation of technology caused the tristesse and failure of suburbia, meanwhile city centres grew vertical. One might say that the modernist urban experiment has failed and we live in a city of constant crisis. The proposed answer lies in a reincarnation of Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City under the vision of a post-capitalistic economy of self-sustainability with a new morality. Others celebrate the Architecture of the Green City, where deceptively high carbon emissions and embedded grey energy are “green-washed-wannabe-metabolistic-adenomas”. But is high density really the solution to any number of social and ecological ills? With higher population and an increased migration, cities will have to change radically. The research assesses the prose of the future city for living, mobility, infrastructure and communication. Linear Cities of mobility veins, the city as a branding exercise of the automotive industries or the individual pop up epicurean city are just a few reflections of the city as technology.