Transformational urban landscapes: industry - infrastructure - logistics and the opportunity in shifts

The notion of city is altered and transformed more rapidly than ever before. Rather than extremely high densities, the repercussions of massive urbanisation is the decentralisation of industrial programs, infrastructures and resources, all of which are pushed out even further from the central city.

The project examines the relationships between shifting industrial practices in the context of increasing urbanisation, centring on the symbiotic relationship between industry, infrastructure and logistics. The work focusses on logistic networks and the temporal, strategic and opportunistic transformations of the urban landscape that assert themselves on the collective form of the city. Through a series of writings, speculative experiments, and projects, the work seeks to accelerate the discontinuous density of change, integrating the existing milieu and future trajectories. The result is an amplification of relationships that are forged between both, interconnected and seemingly unrelated entities. The research identifies particular socio-economic conditions affecting the increments of contemporary urban development, and proposes a series of methods and interventions through which urban form can be reconstituted, and future change may occur.

Instead of removal of industrial and replacement with residential, how might one propose a model of urbanism that can be created out of these activities in common, one that builds a new and complex urbanism from the different forces, and timelines, given the existing and new occupations of industrial inner-city sites?