Technology is radically shaping the city around us, just as it always has. Where previous technologies like the car, the elevator and the siege engine defined urbane form with crude, broad brushstrokes, contemporary technologies such as autonomous systems, the Internet of Things, machine intelligence, on-demand generation and super-local storage, and shareable spaces and services promise to transform the urban fabric into a quite different pattern: distributed, lightweight adaptable, cooperative, participative. They may enable much of the 'cruft' left by the 20th-century technologies to be excised from the city, allowing life, human and otherwise to spring forth once again.
Hill, Dan. "Small Pieces Loosely Joines': Practices for Super-local Participative Urbanism," Architecutral Design 75, no.1 (2005): 68.
Architecture is a reflection of available technology and its inherent ideologies. Modern technology has connected people from all over the world, and with it, has enforced the importance of interconnections and shareable spaces. Architecture which has synchronous elements nurture growth through co-operation and collaboration between people, and with that, new ideas.
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