the ressurection of the commons high-density urbanization is destroying communities through the generation of vertical cities; bounding hundreds of people in privatized boxes that fuel economic growth to a higher socio demographic, constructing an imperceptible division in communities. that “"thrives on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never disappointed"” (ballard, 1975). this serves as a method of vertically layering residential property in high urban densities to construct what civilization believes a city to be, which is quickly alienating people to the singular formed landscape on ground level. which is questioning the role of us as "landscape architects to design on multiple scales, to one day escape the monotonous urban planned form of bird shit architecture"” (gehl 2011). to avoid a global dystopian city where life isn’t defined by built structure we must consider the communal and singular, which cannot be simply defined through the top down plan method of a figure ground as “"cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody"” (jacobs 1964). until now… we have reached a point where top down urban planning is destroying the singular and private in our world. we as designers must re-think how a city is composed, by considering verticality through the operation of axonometric, computerized three dimensional modelling and plan over multiple scales, to generate a greater understanding on how public space is informed in dense urban fields. to renew the term landscape urbanism as the primary operation to organise the future ground, as the one we currently occupy is lost in a sea of concrete towers.
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