The Legalized City was created on this day, 30 June 2013. The Legalized City is a project. The Legalized City is also a metaphor. At the same time, the Legalized City is a typical, as well as a specific, phenomenon. The Legalized City is a cultural, social, architectural and urban development truth. The Legalized City is our everyday life. For some, the Legalized City is their pride, for others it is a shame, but the prevailing majority of the population simply lives the Legalized City. The Legalized City has its shape; the Legalized City has its boundaries. One enters into the Legalized City consciously and without persuasion. One does not exit the Legalized City. The Legalized City forever confirms the desired state. The Legalized City is the final form of a consciously chosen life.
It is unusual that one city is a project, a metaphor and a phenomenon, all at the same time. The Legalized City is an accurately thought out project and it is super real. The Legalized city is the image of a state, but also a recognizable, finished process which deserves its description and a plan. The Legalized City is our daily image, clarified and outlined in its truthfulness and commonness. The Legalized City doesn’t have a guilty consciousness due to perfection, nor does it show pretentions to patronize. The Legalized City has no desire to idealize and aestheticize. The Legalized City is a generally accepted, subsequently confirmed model of life and work in the community. The Legalized City came into existence, it evolved and became action in time, based on the fundamental human nature and the need to build according to clear and everlasting laws of adaptable infrastructure and shifting politics.
The Legalized city consists of municipality N, municipality R, municipality V, municipality V-1 and village Č, which are located alongside the Adriatic coast, on one larger peninsula, on two larger islands and 88 smaller islands. The Legalized City is a project which describes and demonstrates an apparent state of city development, and the generic elements and structures which were used in the construction. The Legalized City is assembled and arranged on the basis of the energy of the multitude of generally accepted methods and elements. The Legalized City is the general condition that we all see and we all feel. The Legalized City places such a condition on a pile and it provides order to the pile giving it a corresponding meaning which has never been defined before. The order and the meaning in this case are not perceived as arbitrating or hierarchical zoning.
The Legalized City does not show a desire for something better, and even less an aspiration towards the ideal. The order and the new meaning are simply serving a project that demonstrates a possibility. The Legalized City is a possibility constructed from the omnipresent, the ordinary and the quotidian. The ordinariness and the quotidian have been brought to a state of hypertrophied quantitative immensity. This ordinariness obtains its body, and the shape of ordinariness is a specific new possibility.
The Legalized City cannot be controlled by any spatial gesture or by a series of strokes and shapes. The Legalized City fragments its structural components and elements. Every component of the Legalized City is a hostage of the totality. They are hostages of a modus-operandi, the spirit of deceit and the hypocrisy on which they were developed. The Legalized City consists of components which cannot exist without one another. Every village or municipality of the Legalized City is a link in an endless chain, a part of a network and a matrix. The Legalized City is a generic matrix of genetic dependence of each element and individual. All components of the City are products of the same creators. Incestuous brothers and sisters caught in a continuous dance of the super real quotidian.
The growth, shapes and elements of the Legalized City are based on relationships and rules which function as reflections, interpretations of certain ancient images from which, as some say, everything was created. The Legalized City enters into the realm of amoral, perverse, but also surprisingly ordinary and innocent at first glance. The Legalized City and its individual elements were initially found beyond good and evil, but they were eventually summed up and arranged into a project, creating a perverse lightness of totality. This perverse lightness results from naivety and recklessness of many decisions accumulated over time. It is an everyday truth. The truth everyone recognizes and wants.
The Legalized City was produced from a photograph of the actual condition. The actual condition is represented by a two dimensional orthophoto map recorded up until a specific date at a specific location. The photograph functions as a beginning of a new life. The photograph functions as a phoenix. The Legalized City and its houses have been initially constructed, and their use and the number of floors will be subsequently determined. The structure of the roof is covered by authentic Mediterranean tiles and it relativizes content and volume. The photograph of the roof is a materialization of the pure super reality. The City’s roofs are built simply to be photographed. The photography is a measure of truth. The building shown in the photograph will only subsequently be turned into a project. The legalization project for each of the constructed units comprises the plan for the Legalized City. This process is known to everyone and it is generally accepted. The building method is verified, the principle is operationally feasible and the administrative and legal procedures are legitimate.
Each resident of the Legalized City is informed about the rules and the methods of work, firmly assured of the given parameters, relationships and politics. The residents of the Legalized City do not call anything into question. They simply live and build. They are in a situation beyond the standards of ethics, morality and religion. The residents of the Legalized City believe in the given rules and tradition which they realize and understand through the klapa singing, through the stone wattle on the wall of the pizza place or a fast-food stall. That is tradition in the form of a rustic ceramic tile from Pevec Superstore.
History, archeology and cultural monuments of the Legalized City exist and are used exclusively in the service of tourism. They also form the basis for a fictitious identity. The Legalized City is always sunny and warm. This is written in travel agencies brochures and on internet sites of this city. The climate is Mediterranean and stable, without drastic changes and every house has its own air-conditioning unit.
In one municipality of the Legalized City, there is a lake on a small peninsula. The lake is of irregular oval shape with the surface area of 5,300 m2 and it is 15 m deep. The seawater lake is considered to be a natural bioreactor in which intense biochemical processes occur. Right next to this geo-hydro-morphological phenomenon, a legalized large, glamorous and famous port for nautical tourism was constructed. The port is of a high standard with numerous facilities, shops, a hotel, casino and 600 berths. This prestigious marina is visited by many celebrities who like to spend time there.
Each municipality of the Legalized City has its own beach. A beach with numerous clubs is a special phenomenon where the party lasts for 24 hours a day. During the day and night, the residents and guests are entertained by go-go dancers, while the music, after-beach parties and famous DJs lead them through wild and crazy parties. We can say that the beach brought great popularity to the Legalized City and additionally confirmed its fame.
The infrastructure of the Legalized City rests on absolute freedom (selfishness) of the individual. The infrastructure of the Legalized City is dealt with if necessary and varies from super individual towards necessarily collective. The individual, as the utterly selfish, parasitic and self-indulging, is put before the collective and the generally planned. The collective is dealt with only before the collapse, after the pain of the unbearable condition or paranoia induced by the media pressure. The Legalized City absorbs the energy from photovoltaic cells, geothermal heat pumps, black water heaters and diesel aggregates. Everyone has a septic tank and an energy certificate. The only planned and omnipresent infrastructure is the mobile service provider network and a wireless internet service provider network. Every house has its own hot-spot.
The only real subconsciously dependent collective spirit, behavior correction and the possible fear is the social network status. As the city is growing so is the individual need for infrastructure. The infrastructural elements will be provided when necessary, in an appropriate manner, and only for a limited period, if so required. The infrastructure is a kind of a time-sharing category. The infrastructure is paid for or rented by a text message.
The houses in the Legalized City are mainly constructed in a “Mediterranean style”. Slanted roofs covered with tiles of various colors and shapes. Some roofs are covered with tin, concrete or plastics, but they are always and only in a color and structure of the Mediterranean tiles. The windows are made of plastics, sometimes aluminum, of different colors and shapes. The Legalized City accepts and recognizes the architectural stylistic orientation that varies between Tuscany-Mediterranean and Greco-Roman style with a strong sense for the authentic and traditional. Postmodern pastiche, collage of elements and materials bought during several afternoons in one of the wholesale stores of construction materials. The interiors of buildings in the Legalized City are not as determined as their exterior. The stylistic and technical possibilities here are limitless. As opposed to the exterior which is not even finished on numerous houses, the interior of each building is completely spotless. Every resident of the Legalized City has the right to choose his/her own colors, trimmings and appliances.
One thing is certain; anyone can create a design, perform and supervise construction for the house and all its exterior elements, as well as its interior, in the Legalized City. There is a complete freedom as well as a democracy of possibilities. Everyone is his/her own architect and builder. The construction accepts all styles, all ideas and concepts. It is a clear and precise image of genuine subconsciousness. The construction of the Legalized City is a final liberation and self-affirmation.
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