The emphasis is on the extensive reworking of the surface of the earth as a smooth, continuous matrix that effectively binds the increasingly disparate elements of our environment together.
"Eduard Bru and Adriaan Geuze are two designers who are especially interested in making things and places that are indeterminate in their functions and thereby allow their users to invent and claim space for themselves.
"The voids exercise a greater effect on the subsequent built environment than does the design of particular building layouts.
"Unlike the treelike, hierarchical structures of traditional cities, the contemporary metropolis functions more like a spreading rhizome, dispersed and diffuse, but at the same time infinitely enabling.
"…ambiguous areas…peripheral sites, middle landscapes that are neither here nor there, and yet are so pervasive as to now characterize the dominant environment in which most people live.
"…if the goal of designing the urban surface is to increase its capacity to support and diversify activities in time—even activities that cannot be determined in advance—then a primary design strategy is to extend its continuity while diversifying its range of services.
"…the urban surface…its smooth and uninterrupted continuity…
"…landscape…I refer to the extensive and inclusive ground-plane of the city, the “field” that accommodates buildings, roads, utilities, open spaces, neighborhoods, and natural habitats.
"Here, the term landscape no longer refers to prospects of pastoral innocence but rather invokes the functioning matrix of connective tissues that organize not only objects and spaces but also the dynamic processes and events that move through them. This is a landscape as active surface, structuring the conditions for new relationships and interactions among the things it supports.
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