The Wild City - reference
‘The Wild City - Genetics of uncontrolled urban processes’ is a research into non-planned and barely regulated processes of urban transformations. By examining the city of Belgrade, over the past decade in the wake of the Balkan conflicts, a new physical layer of the contemporary city has been discovered and explored. Its wild topology has developed in opposition to a centralised, directed process of growth - ‘it is mobile, temporary, a-legal, chaotic, heterogeneous, 24 hours vivid. Its actors and creators are individuals; it changes and evolves constantly.’ In the urban domain, these processes are seen as bringing innovation and creating potential for architects to extract from them new urban forms.
This project is a collaboration of Ana Dzokic, Milica Topalovic, Marc Neelen and Ivan Kucina. It has been developed both through a research at the Berlage Institute, Postgraduate Laboratory of Architecture, and as a part of the STEALTH group, Rotterdam.
taken from http://www.classic.archined.nl/wildcity/wildcity/wildcity.html
“For a period of 10 years, the Wild City has created an unconventional social condition in contemporary Europe. Afairly primitive, but rapid formation of a liberal market and its extreme, shows an example not determined by icons of Global capitalism, but a romantically anarchist universe of ordinary people going for their everyday needs and dreams.” - http://www.scribd.com/doc/454132/Wild-City
At the same time, this reminds me reading about informal settlements (can’t remember who - compared its appearance to a rubbish dump - seemingly chaotic). They then went on to explain the complex organisation of shanty town urbanism… So - from this passage I do not want to romanticise anarchy as they do, but to reiterate that I see this form of free market trading as socialist….-while it can be seen as raw capitalism, it has intention on a human scale…? - survival.
