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When reading Andrea Branzi’s The Weak Metropolis I find one dominating theme; the idea of resilience and adaptability, and it reminded me a lot of the essay Legibility and Resilience, written by Julia Czerniak in the book Large Parks. Branzi’s essay, as Julia Czerniak’s did, posits the option of allowing the metropolis (or any urban setting) to be resilient, open-ended, and left to user interpretation.
Branzi’s essay is short, but filled with this idea that the best decision to make in the design of an urban setting, is one that can be easily changed. The urban space should be able to accommodate the needs not of a past we left behind, and not of a future we yet don’t know, but rather, those needs of the ever present now. This is where change comes in. As people continue to adjust lifestyles, their needs change, and so should their dwelling place, in this case, the metropolis.
Adding to this, I would say, would be the incorporation or rather, a heavier push of ecological practices as a response or a reaction to these suggestions made.
Adaptation. Resilience.