Hypotheses and Evidence: as to the Form of an Informational City

Abstract

The paper attempts a setting out and discussion of certain ideas on present-day processes as to the transformation
and development of urban space, this being here thought to be subject to two contrary pressures
these being of a quite contrary nature and degree, namely those that are consequential off-shoots of the socalled
Informational Revolution as against those others that spring from the decisions and measures called
for to answer the increasingly evident Ecological Crisis. Both of these are here felt to be driving forces in present-
day social change, and therefore to lie behind observable transformations in land usage and urban
space. The paper discusses the nature of those structural changes and sets out to ascertain the ways in which
they might be affecting both the city and territory. For the author, we are up against a very vexed question
as many authors hold the Informational City to be necessarily formless and nothing but a mere process and
thus outside considerations of form as such whereas some others, from a more architectural standpoint, do
indeed believe that new forms in things built can be identified, forms which denote a new type of urban space,
and this the City of a burgeoning Informational Society.