Chapter 6 - A Changing City

There are an endless number of possibilities for future scenarios of the Latent City, depending on the pressures the system may face. Public attitudes change, economies shift, climates alter, and populations change. The future is hard to fully predict, and uncertainty demonstrates this well. Out of possible options for change we can select some for the discussion of this thesis. Three scenarios for changes happening to the Latent City form were chosen. These include population increase, population decrease, and denser ecosystems. It is important to note that these scenarios are demonstrating a potential outcome rather than a prescribed result. What happens in the scenarios is influenced by the Latent City framework rule system established. The form shown in each scenario is not necessarily what the changes would look like, rather how they could look like. Future scenarios could end up as a combination of each other, they are not necessarily an end state of the system but a snapshot of its change.