City As Organic Patchwork: City As Streamlined Machine
by Neelkanth Chhaya
Neelkanth Chhaya reflects on the nature of the contemporary city, where technocrats dream of absolute coordination and efficiency, and with the technologies of information in the ascendant, while the idea of “collective” has become a huge faceless, shapeless mass of urban inhabitants as the scale parity between the human and the machine has vanished.