The project began with an interest in the development of cities - researching theoretical and real cities, past and present, and creating “postcards” that identified the key characteristics that typified the cities. The team used this information to build a book where we presented ideas on how cities have progressed in regards to ideas like grid expansion, security, reconstruction and revitalization. From this we predicted the future direction of cities. We created moments that generalized what we found unique in each region. These instances, placed within an ambiguous context, allowed us to form more complex cities from simple ideas. 

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The final synthesis was created: unique “Verb Cities". All instances are represented as actions, which allows for a dynamic cityscape. The more dynamic actions in each combination were implemented to a higher degree. These combination Verb Cities are a merged synthesis and growth of the instances. Narratives were developed, describing the growth of each city from a tabula rasa. The final form of these combination cities show our idea of what a future city could look like. Animations present a field of constant motion and growth; some actions overtake others, some get buried by new actions. 

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The playing field is never level.