Cities are never finished. There is never a completion date, nor a grand opening. There is never a single author to a city. They aren’t built for the now, but for the yet and the not yet, and instead lived in the now. Cites age, they change, and they adapt. They grow, they shrink. New people come in, old people move out. Some people visit and others never leave. People live in cities, people change cities. Cities are performed. They can be planned, but are never planned. They give life to the unplanned, to the accidental. These are what cities are, and by contrast you could take what buildings are, but instead why not see them as similar? See buildings as you would a city. Buildings could learn a thing or two.
“… The real prospect for an architecture of our time is still to be found within the horizon of the city, that spatial material trace of reciprocal interests. The reverse, however, is not true.”
-David Leatherbarrow
(“Sitting in the City,” Architecture Oriented Otherwise)
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