Urbanism is a term that many designers (specifically architects) use to describe an urban culture or the “city culture”. In this instance, the kind of urban culture that is being examined is that of the general interpretation of the word, urbanism. The future of urbanism has been predicted via serious and unrealistic intent alike as we have seen in movies and video games, such as Call of Duty or Halo, or movies like Star Trek and Guardians of the Galaxy. But these representations of urbanism are radical and almost require an entire revamp of humans’ current system.
What if we adjust the lens that we are looking through and focus on the future of urbanism that is a lot closer to the present than that of the far-off future, like the prior examples are. Urbanism has the potential to make a drastic change here in the near future, but not through design or the change of buildings, but rather in the mind set and the scope from which we as human beings know and understand the word "city". The shift that will happen is what is known as "the new ecosystem". Basically, broken down, there is thought that people will soon relate the word "nature" or "natural" to what you and I may know now as "industrious" or "urban". In the relatively near future, human’s will know steel, glass, and concrete to be their understanding of nature, rather than wood, leaves, and grass! If you think about it, once the concept of “The City” takes hold, there will be little to stop its growth. Soon, the urban landscape will cover more square footage on the earth than remaining forests, and this is where the change with the concept of urbanism will start to take form and grow as common understanding.
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