Cities absent of character will only achieve a cohesive level of integrity through the use of synthetic infrastructures.
When a city emerges out of antiquated agendas, it begins to exist as a diasporic hodgepodge. This is especially true for developing land with little geographic attributes. Urbanists should then reassess the stock of nature before promoting any form of growth.
Dallas, Texas was originally settled as a trading post to Native Americans and settlers in the late 19th century and since then, functions as a financial center. Cosidering the patterns of expansion, based on annexed housing districts outside of downtown as an office park, it is clear that the overall boundaries were not governed by anything tangible. The growth throughout history consisted mainly of hastily erected buildings without comprehensive vernaculars or long life expectancy. The pride of ownership is now diluted with an identity crisis, which is caused by episodes of commerce that are mostly socially benign. Recently, the municipal consensus allowed the floodplain to be manually enhanced through a collective effort. Flood protection was the perfect excuse to manipulate geography to greater benefit the public realm. Although this is an effort that should be respected, I still see no efforts to delineate the culture from others. My goal is to experiment with opportunities in this urban renewal project to find out what is needed to ignite the trends that will collectively build a face to this metropolis. A cohesive investigation that will come out of this unique renewal will be an implementation of a newly introduced typology.
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