mass are run into cities at an astounding pace — so tight , not even the urban center themselves will be able-bodied to keep up . A raw show at the Museum of Modern Art open this week to canvass how that explosive growth will sham six city globally : Hong Kong , Istanbul , Lagos , Mumbai , Rio de Janeiro , and New York City .
odd emergence : Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacitiesis more than an exhibition , it ’s the culmination of a 14 - calendar month initiative where designers and architects were tapped to produce various scenarios for each of the six metropolis . At the nub is this idea of “ tactical urbanism ” : Instead of top - down , government - mandate planning decision , change will likely comes to these metropolis thanks to loose , grassroots effort from citizen , who are aided and gift by engineering .
Here are six examples of how this might go , from six interdisciplinary team of architects and urbanism experts . The museum has also beencurating a Tumblrof tactical urbanism model from around the public .
Hong Kong
Of all the city featured in the exhibition , Hong Kong might be growing the truehearted . And it also might be the most likely to run out of room for its residents — especially when pair with retreating coastlines due to mood modification . An theme named “ Hong Kong Is Land ” by MAP Office purport bring eight Modern artificial island which can help oneself to not only put up and bring home the bacon economic opportunities for the growing population , but also allow Hong Kong to experiment with novel style of living . In increase , internet Architecture Lab created a publication and gameto produce a dialog about the issues show up .
Istanbul
Like many countries that develop rapidly in the latter half of the twentieth century , Turkey is now constellate with high - rise , high - density living accommodations . These pseudo - suburban bodily structure make out as TOKI developments call for to be reconfigured for present-day life . A series of interventions by Superpool and Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée would use applied science to permit residents of each TOKI apartment to share resourcefulness , barter acquisition , and provide services much like a time bank . These local microeconomies would increase interdependence and resiliency and tone up the good sense of community .
Lagos
Tactical urbanism has become a way of biography for residents of the Makoko slum area in Lagos , where over 100,000 citizens endure on boats and plasterer’s float in the metropolis ’s lagoon . Architects at NLÉ ( who make abeautiful floating schoolfor the area ) and Zoohaus / Inteligencias Colectivas propose ameliorate the survive typology with sustainable , multi - family drift dwellings with improved admission and military service . Renewable energy islands are solar - power community centers where residents can appoint smartphones or fudge in communal kitchens .
Mumbai
Mumbai ’s journey to become a world-wide power has also spotlight some of the most unequal growth on the satellite . Among the gamy - rises are thousands of “ tool - theatre , ” small single - story buildings where house physician are make a living doing specialized trade or Christ Within manufacturing piece of work . But these , too , are threatened by slum clearance and evolution to make way for much - needed tightness . A programme byURBZ and Ensamble Studio / MIT - POPlab is sensible to these makers , proposing denser ontogenesis that allows for a new typology of buildings : high - rise pecker - home .
Rio de Janeiro
The most interesting development patterns of the six city featured in the exhibition are see in Rio , where residents of the favelas , the communities long known for being slums , areincreasingly know center - category lifestyles . With that change , the favelas themselves have become places where erstwhile and new , prescribed and loose , traditional and high - tech converge in a means that ’s not assure anywhere else in the cosmos . RUA Arquitetos and MAS Urban Design , ETH Zurich focus in on the favela phenomenon of puxadinho , defined as “ bring - ons to existing structures made from remnant materials ” and how it can be utilise to community - construction as well to improve every day life .
New York City
It would be unmanageable to advise any solution for New York City ’s future that does n’t address the oncoming housing crisis . Much like thecommunal microhousing in city like Seattle , SITU Studio and Cohabitation Strategies propose a new sort of sustenance system for New Yorkers : “ Housing Cooperative Trusts . ” In this exemplar , land and building ownership is handed over to nonprofits that will cope the property with the best social impact in creative thinker for residents . Part of the ism includes imagination - share-out among many properties that will allow house physician access to rooftops , gardens , and other public - private spaces to improve their relationship to the city and each other .
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