Assemblage

The concept of assembly refers to the assembly of several forms of content (actions, bodies, and things) and expression (affects, words, and ideas) into one product (Buchanan 2015, 390). Moreover, when connections between entities produce an arrangement that functions in a specific way, assemblies are formed through territorialization (Deleuze and Guattari 2012).

In the urban design context, an assemblage of a city refers to the actors such as individual buildings, streets, parks, objects, landscapes, people, etc. As the co-relations of these actors are always reforming and advancing, they open new windows to achieving cultural vibrancy, and environmental sustainability.

The map shown in Figure 06, reflects the assemblage of the people in the nodes. People from different backgrounds, different cultures, and different parts of the city rush to an area through some traffic intersections that create the assemblage of people in the nodes. All the components create connections within themselves that are not prefixed or predetermined but continuously evolving. That is one of the key impacts of theoretical assemblage. According to Parr (2010), Deleuze and Guattari develop a vocabulary in their work, that emphasizes how things are connected rather than how they are, and that tendencies might evolve in creative mutation rather than as a reality. They have also considered things not as mere objects but rather assemblages or multiplicities.