Our relationship to the city has been changed much more by information technology than architectural technology,” said curator and Domus magazine editor Joseph Grima, introducing a panel at the Ideas City conference in New York last week. While the basic vocabulary of the city of vertical towers has remained fairly constant for the last hundred years, he continued, what people demand from that landscape has transformed dramatically.
His remark was one of many that underscored the “Untapped Capital” theme of this year’s Ideas City festival, the second iteration of a biennial series of urban-focused events organized by the New Museum in Manhattan. It began with the conference, included a series of workshops in a nearby historic school building, and culminated with a day-long street fair showcasing more than 120 organizations, the majority of which presented modern ways of improving old-style cities that made use of underused, overlooked, or discounted resources.
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