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January/February 2008, Profile No 191
Cities of Dispersal
Guest-edited by Rafi Segal and Els Verbakel
Questioning the traditional boundaries between cities, suburbs, countryside and wilderness, this issue of
AD explores emergent types of public space in low-density environments. Cities of Dispersal describes this
new form of urbanism: decentralised, in a constant process of expansion and contraction, not
homogenous or necessarily low-rise, nor guided by one mode of development, typology or pattern.
While functionally and programmatically, dispersed settlements operate as a form of urbanism, the
place of collective spaces within them has yet to be defined and articulated. The physical transformation
of the built environment on the one hand, and the change in our notion of the public on the other – due
to globalisation, privatisation and segregation – call for renewed interpretations of the nature and
character of public space. The concept of public space needs to be examined: replaced, re-created or
adopted to fit these conditions. What is the place of the public in this form of urbanism, and how can
architecture address the notion mon, collective spaces? What is the current socio-political role of
such spaces? How does the form and use of these spaces reflect the conception of the public as a political
(or nonpolitical) body? And can architecture regain an active role in formulating the notion of the
collective? These an