Urban Natures: Of Fields & Forests
April 2007
This text published in airoots expands on the concept of “urban field” devised by Stan Allen and James Corner (Field Operations). We argue that urban design today is still fatally entrenched in the agro-industrial paradigm. If we want to think beyond the city-nature dichotomy and its corollary, private-public ideology, we have to go back all the way to pre-agrarian modes of operation, which by the way are not only pre, but also post and actually simply “non-agrarian”.