Theoretical cities
If post-modern cities are defined by their decentralization, privatization, and generalized atomization of community, then where are we now? Is the paradigm on the cusp of shifting?
The now-hip focus on “the local,” a focus on community-building and engagement, a reassertion of centralization (downtown revival and investment,) and a push toward public-private partnerships to accomplish development all point to a new mode of thought that is not necessarily at odds with postmodernism but rather a remix of it, the ideals of modernity, and something else entirely different.
