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Publications in Scientific Journals:

M. Doyle:
"'Resources to Needs': A Paradigm for Addressing the Potentiality of the Urban Volume";
Urban Planning, 2 (2017), 1; 6 - 18.



English abstract:
Underground resources are often addressed only out of necessity, leading to conflicts between uses and missing oppor- tunities for productive synergies. The Deep City project is exploring a paradigm of `resources to needsī, which considers resource potentials prior to specific urban projects or plans. Mapping is central to the project and has been explored in sev- eral cities around the world. The `resources to needsī paradigm, however, has received little theoretical or philosophical attention. To think resources before needs challenges common urban normative models and the process-oriented think- ing of mechanical and ecological paradigms popular today. Where current methods for mapping the underground tend to enroll elements in a particular performance or resource use, Deep City seeks to facilitate an intermediate stage in which resource potentials can coexist without any pre-existing interaction or relationship. To think about the urban volume this way, this article works with the informational motor proposed by French philosopher Michel Serres. The logics of substi- tution and circulation of the map and its contents helps to think an alternative form of mapping in which the map itself becomes a reservoir of potentiality for thinking the urban volume less in terms of predefined functions and processes than a mass to be collectively cultivated.

German abstract:
Underground resources are often addressed only out of necessity, leading to conflicts between uses and missing oppor- tunities for productive synergies. The Deep City project is exploring a paradigm of `resources to needsī, which considers resource potentials prior to specific urban projects or plans. Mapping is central to the project and has been explored in sev- eral cities around the world. The `resources to needsī paradigm, however, has received little theoretical or philosophical attention. To think resources before needs challenges common urban normative models and the process-oriented think- ing of mechanical and ecological paradigms popular today. Where current methods for mapping the underground tend to enroll elements in a particular performance or resource use, Deep City seeks to facilitate an intermediate stage in which resource potentials can coexist without any pre-existing interaction or relationship. To think about the urban volume this way, this article works with the informational motor proposed by French philosopher Michel Serres. The logics of substi- tution and circulation of the map and its contents helps to think an alternative form of mapping in which the map itself becomes a reservoir of potentiality for thinking the urban volume less in terms of predefined functions and processes than a mass to be collectively cultivated.

Keywords:
city models, information theory, cartography, potentiality, underground resources


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v2i1.759


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