MICROCHIP CITY

Le Corbusier developed the concept of Ville Radieuse, inverted the logic of industry to urban planning. The centralization and redistribution can make the city more efficient. Like the fractal geometry, this logic is fully functional in different scales such as the 'House machine'. 
City is no longer a continues interface to have a tour with, what Kevin Lynch said is more proper for the old urban spaces, small scaled cites carried limited functions. Parallel to 'House machine' metropolitan is more like a 'Machine complex', the major issue of the megacities can only be considered from the level of urban planning. Transportation,  Dynamic arrangement, Zoning, all these issues totally changed. Nowadays, city revolution is more similar to the digital renovation. We can no longer think the Moore's Law is miracle, such fast reacting, precise aiming renovation is also needed in architecture area, in terms of the exploded housing needs, pollution, terrible traffic and other severe problems.

Archigram, Superstudio and all the visualizations in science fictions, people's imagine of the future city all goes to the same image, Skyscrappers like woods with metal polished surface, the city looks cold and calm, highly efficient. The only sentimental part can be seen in the Blade Runner is the wet dirty slum in the edge between cities.  

After world war II people realized that poetic can't save no one from hell. Sentimental can be protected or destroyed by industried  dehumanized forces. City society all ask for definite order. In this case, for Architects, set up a efficient circulation is more our duty.
the photo I choose is called the Microchip City which has a symbolic meaning of the accurate high efficient future city, we may think the city as a huge living machine.In the previous class, we have seen pictures and movie clips about the city grids, I think grids is just a beginning, we will finally achieve the microchip city, areas are fully autonomy just like a microchip we have input output different functions working together, if the system needs to be upgraded only replace the areas, advance it and get it plug-in again.