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Cities as memes tales and reality of urban
evolution ???? ???? - ?????? ??????? ????????
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• Vlad Radkov
• 2011 Muskie Fellow
• Google me if you will

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Particle mass Field energy Information
entropy DIVORCED!
GUESS WHAT?)
-gt EVOLUTION (FITTEST)
?entropy
?of complexity
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World as the Word worth spreading?

• Information heading to future
• - reproduction is communication in time/space
• Creative writing
• - recombination increases enthropy
• Different medias
• abiotic, biotic, postbiotic, virtual
  http//2045.com/, Avatar, Matrix, Rabbit Hole
• City as adaptation/device

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Heaven must be waiting 4 U
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Hey, do you know where you coming from/going to?

• Fittest ? Best possible )
• Individual, group, species, biotic, noosphere?
• Further in time ? more advanced
• Eastern non-doing vs. Western progress
• What is the unit of evolution?
• - ecosystem vs. individual
• What is the indicator of goodness of fit?
• - sustainable matter vs. levels of memetic dance

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Who has better chances?
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Da City Code

• Increased speed of evolution
• - abiotic virtual (Ctrl-C Ctrl-V)
• Urbanization -gt New global force
• - Cities as noosphere ecocapitals (Rozenberg)
• Backups hysteresis
• convergence and divergence
• Cities come and go, and transcend
• Limits of Growth
• - Humanity challenges R city challenges

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Breakdance of Evolution

• Divergence/convergence hysteresis
• Environmental karma created and creates
• Probability distributions in East and West no
  expectancy Russian roulette, avos, halyava

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Different cities different ways

• Domain of Kshatriyas (warriors) - 3-4
• using power to sustain administrative centers
• Domain of Brahmin (priests) - 4-5
• using ideas to sustain think tanks
• Domain of Shudras (workmen) 1-2
• using matter to sustain industrial centers
• Domain of Vaishyas (traders) 2-3
• using money to sustain financial centers
• Historical, but in the global world theres

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The Ecological Footprint
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This means

• Each city these days faces global challenges,
• and theres NO way to avoid them

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The Meeting of Extremes
Endangered Cities can be replaced easily dependent on the flow Prey for bigger cities Las Vegas, Washington DC Cities on Privoz - Important role. connected - loose if sieged Moscow, Bloomington, NYC
Traditional habitats no growth, no cry well-grounded Middle of nowhere Self-sustained noocities able to survive on their own Scandinavia, Suomi
Dependency on outer resources
Global significance
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5 dominants and crises (Vladimir Iglin, 2004)

• ?) Environmental
• ?) Cultural
• ?) Economic
• ?) Technologic
• ?) Managerial

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5 dominants and crises (Vladimir Iglin, 2004)

• ?) Volga, Climate
• ?) Cultural tolerance
• ?) Location and energy
• ?) Transfer of technology
• ?) Crisis managers

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Natures Way

• Environmental
• Cultural
• Technological

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Finding a spot

• Multiple births (4, according to tour guide)
• Frontier energy industry science
• Automobile producer for the nation
• What about living in global world?
• Togliatti as one-stop creative lab tough stuff.

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Way to Creativity

• Myth of Creative cities (neocolonialism)
• Environmental concern (observation is a source of
  creativity)
• Marginal evolution (crises produce solutions)
• Clash of cultures
• HOW DO WE KEEP RESOURCES
• KNOW HOW? Identity.

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From Togliatti, Samara Bend of Volga River
Urban Forest 19872.2 acres 25 city area
? Russian Motown ? 750 000 ?? ? 1000 km/MOW ?
Melting pot (50s) ? Crisis Global ?Pioneers
NATIONAL PARKSAMARSKAYA LUKA AND ZHIGULI
PRESERVE (VOLGA RIVER BEND)
Map data from Samara regional geoportal
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Educating citizens

• Show Nature to kids, teens and adults
• Healthy and green lifestyles martial arts
• Information technologies-languages
• Street culture vs. imported culture
• Dont worry about exported semen
• Use soft power instead of guerilla war

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