In a recent
talk at the London School of Economics, sociologist Saskia Sassen cited a brilliant statement attributed to psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan:
Idealism is the lover you haven't met yet.
Landscape architect Jason A. King of Landscape + Urbanism has populated one corner of the loveless - a field whose poster boy is actor Robert De Niro in the 1970s film Hi, Mom!
Bored at a conference in Portland, Jason fixed on the tsunami of things just now that are paired with the word 'urbanism'.
He went home, did a quick Google search and came up with an hilarious - and terrifying - pick-n-mix dictionary of ways in which people choose to interpret life in cities and movements within it.
New Urbanism
Ecological Urbanism
Future Urbanism
Green Urbanism
Resilient Urbanism
Infrastructural Urbanism
Sustainable Urbanism
Emergent Urbanism
Participatory Urbanism
Walkable Urbanism
Everyday Urbanism
Real Urbanism
Clean Urbanism
Border Urbanism
Exotic Urbanism
2nd Rate Urbanism
Beautiful Urbanism
Brutal Urbanism
Denied Urbanism
Political Urbanism
Middle Class Urbanism
Paid
Urbanism
Post-Traumatic Urbanism
Big Urbanism
Agricultural
Urbanism
Open Source Urbanism
Opportunistic Urbanism
Instant
Urbanism
Unitary Urbanism
Bricole Urbanism
Slum Urbanism
Networked Urbanism
Bypass Urbanism
Gypsy Urbanism
DIY Urbanism
Integral Urbanism
Inverted Urbanism
Vernacular Urbanism
Pop-Up Urbanism
Nuclear Urbanism
New (Sub)Urbanism
Informal Urbanism
Behavioral
Urbanism
Temporary Urbanism
Braided Urbanism
Trace Urbanism
Market
Urbanism
Propagative Urbanism
Radical Urbanism
Anti-Urbanism
Disconnected
Urbanism
Magical Urbanism
Recombinant Urbanism
Guerilla
Urbanism
Dialectical Urbanism
Stereoscopic Urbanism
Holy
Urbanism
Retrofuture Urbanism
Digital Urbanism
Micro Urbanism
Parametric
Urbanism
Help!
:-o
Jason's post here.
First and last images courtesy of Yvan Rodic.
