Essays
How heavy is a city? The complexity of formulating a response to this simple question points to a wide set of transformations that have taken place to what we used to call the city, as well as its backdrop: intensification, construction, destruction, erosion, emission, accumulations, duration, acidification, half-lives, extinction, fossilization… It begins to reveal a new figure in the making with a magnitude of planetary proportions.
Intensification is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Lisbon Architecture Triennale within the context of its seventh edition, curated by John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog (Territorial Agency). It will feature contributions by Michaela Büsse, Emanuele Coccia, Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, Paul N. Edwards, Tim Lenton, Geoff Manaugh, José-Carlos Mariátegui, Anne McClintock, Raqs Media Collective, Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith, John Tresch, Laura Tripaldi, and Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams.