Накъде върви урбанизираната цивилизация през ХХI век: дистопия или утопия?
Whither 21st Century Urban Civilization: Dystopia or Utopia?

Summary/Abstract: The author shares some thoughts on the future of human settlements in the era of a world population of 10 billion. He writes that the era of the classical static city co-mingling with natural ecology gave way to the era of dynapolis, the embodiment of modern civilization. Modern cities are vulnerable to all sorts of potential causes of disaster. The static and stable mosaic of past human settlement patterns has been stirred up globally by various agents of modern civilization. Tonuma speculates on the human settlement pattern of the 21st century city as border-less habitation progresses and in the face of absolute population increase and international cross-border migration. He uses C.A. Doxiadis’s concept of “Ecumenopolis” or “World City” to describe the image of the inevitable form that human settlements on this earth will take in the future. The author says that of we want to imagine a future closer to paradise, not to hell, with population of 10 billion, the people of the 21st century will need to have a particular sort of intelligence, and to discover and invent new styles of living. For that to happen, symbiosis between races must take many forms, and the co-existence of a variety of cultures must be acknowledged.

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