program: draft

the program.

Program in this thesis is conceived of as the indifferent, open-ended, multi-authored, and unscripted material code or logic to the spatial development of the city. In the past, planning and architecture have coveted it as a righteous tool to maintain their supposedly autonomous disciplines’s intellect and its practices. Such endeavors though have often served to marginalize the public face of these professions and have failed at exercising their agency. Instead, the organizational logistics of giant multi-national corporations, the ants of small self-organized entities, and rapid advancement in digital technology have exercised more agency into programming the city. Having said this, program here is not completely neutral, as it is has always been under the influence of the last entry of code. If anything, it is more of a conduit than a container for facilitating the development of the city’s spatial make up in its various typological building and zoning incarnations.