The Self-Organizing City and the Architecture of Metabolism: An Architectural Critique on Urban Growth and Reorganization

Over decades, cities have undergone rapid urbanization and uncontrolled urban growth. The need for future cities to operate as adaptable complex systems has generated an interest in the self-organizing resilient city. The main aim of the study is to find ways of conceptualizing self-organizing the r...

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Main Authors: Cemaliye Eken, Resmiye Alpar Atun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-09-01
Series:Sustainability
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/19/5326
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spelling doaj-ba10930f196e4bdba9e5037a779bac272020-11-25T01:23:41ZengMDPI AGSustainability2071-10502019-09-011119532610.3390/su11195326su11195326The Self-Organizing City and the Architecture of Metabolism: An Architectural Critique on Urban Growth and ReorganizationCemaliye Eken0Resmiye Alpar Atun1Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta 99450, TurkeyDepartment of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta 99450, TurkeyOver decades, cities have undergone rapid urbanization and uncontrolled urban growth. The need for future cities to operate as adaptable complex systems has generated an interest in the self-organizing resilient city. The main aim of the study is to find ways of conceptualizing self-organizing the resilient city as an emerging field of research for urban design and architectural theory. Based on these assumptions, an integrated relationship between architecture and urban design are seen as potential catalysts for absorbing the uncertainty and disturbances of urban growth and preparing the structure, function, and identity of a city as a self-organizing system that can continuously and freely adapt to changes. The paper seeks to determine the role of architecture in urban design as a main key for facilitating a self-organizing system. A systematic theoretical research method was used to describe resilience theory and self-organizing systems within an adaptive cycle and hierarchical thinking across scales. The study then sought to identify the earliest point that architectural theory conceptualized future cities from the perspective of self-organizing systems. The Metabolism movement was chosen to provide a basis for the discussion of the study. Cities as self-organizing systems need to be considered through cross-scale interactions. For a self-organizing resilient city, the inter-reliance between architecture and urban design drive the main inputs to the system.https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/19/5326resilienceself-organizing cityadaptive cyclecross-scale interactionsurban growthrenewalmetabolism movementurban spacearchitecture
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The Self-Organizing City and the Architecture of Metabolism: An Architectural Critique on Urban Growth and Reorganization
Sustainability
resilience
self-organizing city
adaptive cycle
cross-scale interactions
urban growth
renewal
metabolism movement
urban space
architecture
author_facet Cemaliye Eken
Resmiye Alpar Atun
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title The Self-Organizing City and the Architecture of Metabolism: An Architectural Critique on Urban Growth and Reorganization
title_short The Self-Organizing City and the Architecture of Metabolism: An Architectural Critique on Urban Growth and Reorganization
title_full The Self-Organizing City and the Architecture of Metabolism: An Architectural Critique on Urban Growth and Reorganization
title_fullStr The Self-Organizing City and the Architecture of Metabolism: An Architectural Critique on Urban Growth and Reorganization
title_full_unstemmed The Self-Organizing City and the Architecture of Metabolism: An Architectural Critique on Urban Growth and Reorganization
title_sort self-organizing city and the architecture of metabolism: an architectural critique on urban growth and reorganization
publisher MDPI AG
series Sustainability
issn 2071-1050
publishDate 2019-09-01
description Over decades, cities have undergone rapid urbanization and uncontrolled urban growth. The need for future cities to operate as adaptable complex systems has generated an interest in the self-organizing resilient city. The main aim of the study is to find ways of conceptualizing self-organizing the resilient city as an emerging field of research for urban design and architectural theory. Based on these assumptions, an integrated relationship between architecture and urban design are seen as potential catalysts for absorbing the uncertainty and disturbances of urban growth and preparing the structure, function, and identity of a city as a self-organizing system that can continuously and freely adapt to changes. The paper seeks to determine the role of architecture in urban design as a main key for facilitating a self-organizing system. A systematic theoretical research method was used to describe resilience theory and self-organizing systems within an adaptive cycle and hierarchical thinking across scales. The study then sought to identify the earliest point that architectural theory conceptualized future cities from the perspective of self-organizing systems. The Metabolism movement was chosen to provide a basis for the discussion of the study. Cities as self-organizing systems need to be considered through cross-scale interactions. For a self-organizing resilient city, the inter-reliance between architecture and urban design drive the main inputs to the system.
topic resilience
self-organizing city
adaptive cycle
cross-scale interactions
urban growth
renewal
metabolism movement
urban space
architecture
url https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/19/5326
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