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By 2030, there will be 8.3 billion people on earth. This presents a unique challenge in terms of provision. Such a massive, largely urban population will only be able to be accommodated in expansive megacities. Such a development needs to be supported by advances in the art, science and processes of manufacturing. It also requires us to shrug off the dogma of sustainability that insists that only small can be beautiful.
The guest-editors, Ian Abley and Jonathan Schwinge of London-based research organisation audacity, call for development on a bold scale. They argue that by rapidly super-sizing the built environment, society is not made vulnerable to natural or manmade hazards, and that design innovation surpasses biomimicry. Designers can learn from materials scientists working at the smallest of scales, and from systems manufacturers with ambitions at the largest. This issue calls for creative thinking about typologies and topologies, and considers what that might mean for Africa, China, India, Russia and South America. Megacities everywhere demand integration of global systems of transport and IT in gigantic or spreading structures, constantly upgraded, scraping both the sky and the ground, outwards and into the sea.
It is time that man made modular megastructures with some self-confidence.
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