Позитивные изменения. Города будущего. Тематический выпуск, 2022 / Positive changes. The cities of the future. Special issue, 2022

«Надо смотреть на поселения как на комбинацию инфраструктуры — маршруты, общественные пространства, коммуникации, транспорт — потому что экологичный город сегодня и в будущем — это прежде всего сильное гражданское общество. Речь идет о пешеходном движении: люди важнее машин. Речь идет о плотности. Города с высокой плотностью населения потребляют меньше энергии и являются более дружелюбными. Речь также идет о смешанном использовании: традиционный город никогда не разделялся на спальные районы, рабочие районы, культурные районы. Все это сочеталось вместе в одно прекрасное целое. Сегодня мы должны заново открыть для себя эту красоту».

Источник цитаты: Lord Norman Foster on the future of cities. Retrieved from: https://www.architecture.com/knowledge-and-resources/knowledge-landing-page/lord-norman-foster-on-the-future-of-cities. 29 June 2017. RIBA. (accessed 27.10.2022).

One Hundred Years Ahead: Architects on the Future of the Cities

Yulia Vyatkina

DOI 10.55140/2782-5817-2022-2-S2-10-15

We don't know what lies ahead, but we believe in a better future. Those who are already implementing innovative architectural solutions today are the ones who find it the easiest to look into the future in search of answers to the question "What conditions will the humankind live in?" The Positive Changes Journal editors have compiled the opinions of the leaders and founders of world-renowned architectural firms whose projects are already changing the face of the cities of today. The architects expound on how to combine the environment and urbanism, conserve the planet's resources and make the city adjust to the concept of an ideal way of life.

Yulia Vyatkina

Editor, Positive Changes Journal

Whenever somebody talks about cities of the future, they say those will be eco-cities. What is an eco-city as you understand it?

Balkrishna Doshi, Indian architect, founder of Vastu Shilpa Consultants, Pritzker Prize winner, worked under Le Corbusier:

"A truly sustainable city is a city where the least human energy and time is spent in getting things done. Then people have time for reflection and can once again act like human beings, not the robots they have been forced to become."

Cite: Singh-Bartlett, W. Pritzker Prize winner Balkrishna Doshi on modernism, India and dropping your ego. Retrieved from: https:// www.wallpaper.com/architecture/pritzker-prize-winner-balkrishna-doshi. 07 March 2018. Wallpaper. (accessed 08.11.2022).

What is the concept of "non-extractive architecture"? Is it possible to respect nature in architecture?

Joseph Grima, co-founder of the Italian design studio Space Caviar and architect, creative director of Design Academy Eindhoven and art critic:

"The architecture of the future must prioritise conserving the earth’s resources if humans are to overcome the evolutionary crisis that they currently face. Getting better at getting better will not on its own be sufficient. In the face of our accelerating technological supremacy, we can no longer afford to simply ask how much it is possible to extract from our habitat; we are now compelled to ask how much it is reasonable to extract. <…> Non-extractive architecture must fully consider the costs not just for the individual and for society, but also future societies who will live with the consequences of the choices of today’s technologically empowered humans."