Real time urbanism

• Main Authors: Ana Ruiz Varona, Jorge León Casero
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2012-12-01
• Series: Revista Teknokultura
• Subjects: gestión urbana; espacio urbano; locus; open source; metrópoli
• Online Access: http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/48040

Nowadays, given the technological revolution of the society of information, the administrative management of the cities faces a new problem not as related to the projection of the urban space as to the capacity of controlling and measuring the process of direct and centralized production of the cities by part of some non-homogeneous social multitudes, in a hyper-accelerated time towards instantaneity. Against libertarian apologies of the new “participative urbanisms”, the article puts forward a discourse that shows the lost associated to the new problem of temporal instantaneity. In this regard we claim new process of mediation that allow administrations and urbanist monitoring the production of the city. To that end, a previous and necessary step will be the redefinition of the role of a new real time urbanist.