[1] UNFPA, “Urbanization: A Majority in Cities”,
http://www.unfpa.org/pds/urbanization.htm
[2] Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publishers, 2005).
[3] Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1958), 175-176. [Emphasis added]
[4] Ibid. 52
[5] Isaiah Berlin, “The Counter-Enlightenment” in The Proper Study of Mankind. Ed. Hardy, Henry (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1997), 243-268.
[6] Le Corbusier, “The City and Its Region” and “Conclusion—Main Points of Doctrine.” in The Athens Charter (New York: Grossman Publishers, 1973), 43-49 and 91-105.
[7] Van Eyck, Aldo, “Is Architecture Going to Reconcile Basic Values?” in Documents of Modern Architecture: CIAM ’59 in Otterlo, ed. Jürgen Joedicke (New York: Universe Books Inc., 1961), 26-35.
[8] Archigram, “Control and Choice” in Archigram, ed. Peter Cook and Michael Webb (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999), 68.
[9] Hadas Steiner, “Within the Big Structure” in Megastructure Reloaded, ed. Sabrina van der Ley and Markus Richter (Berlin, Hatje Cantz, 2008), 136-152.
[10] Archigram, “Open Ends: Editorial from Archigram 8” in Archigram: A Guide to Archigram 1961-74 (Taiwan, Garden City Publishing, 2003), 216-227.
[11] As opposed to political concept of pluralism.
[12] Simon Sadler, “Beyond Architecture: Indeterminacy, Systems and the Dissolution of Buildings” in Archigram: Architecture without Architecture (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005), 90-93.
[13] Archigram, “Open Ends: Editorial from Archigram 8” in Archigram: A Guide to Archigram 1961-74 (Taiwan, Garden City Publishing, 2003), 216-227.
[14] Hadas Stiener, “The Forces of Matter” in The Journal of Architecture, 10 (2005), 91-109.
[15] For more in depth discussion of the ‘soft pod’ project in the Viennese context, see: Jon Cummings, “Of Pop and Prosthesis: Vienna, 1965-72” in this almanac.
[16] Bill Voyd, “Funk Architecture” in Shelter and Society, ed. Paul Oliver (London: Barrie & Jenkins Publishers, 1976), 156.
[17] For larger discussion on complex feedback processes, see: Nicholas Negroponte, “Responsive Architecture” in Soft Architecture Machines (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1975), 135-137.
[18] Further discussion of Earthrise and its relation to the soft project can be found in: Sanford Kwinter, “Soft Systems” in Culture Lab, ed. Brian Boigon (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), 207-227.
[19] Nate Berg, “Burning Man and the Metropolis”, The Design Observer/Places Magazine,
http://places.designobserver.com/feature/burning-man-and-the-metropolis/23848/
[20] For further discussion on the relationship of platform and application, see: Scott Colman, “Soft Progressivism in a Wasteland of Urban Code” in this almanac.
[21] Will Chase, “Afterburn Report 2010”, Burning Man,
http://afterburn.burningman.com/10/
[22] Rod Garrett, “Designing Black Rock City”, Burning Man,
http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/about_burningman/brc_growth.html
[23] Ibid.
[24] Félix Guattari, The Three Ecologies (London and New Brunswick, NJ: Athlone Press, 2000), 28.