5. Books Cities
Book projects as urban projects
Book sequences as travel routes
Book development as urbanization processes
Book economics as urban economics
Book reading as urban experiences
Book problems as urban problems...
6. Books Cities
Our hypothesis is that working in the cities
space will give us ideas in the book’s space.
This is what you will do in this workshop.
41. Wikipedia
A huge collection of authors (architects) writes formatted
texts (paths) and makes links between them (connected
paths). The resulting city grows organically and
demonstrates a modern form of book-urbanization.
Its growth is semi-planned as some patterns and editorial
rules are imposed to maintain regular structures throughout
the development of the project.
44. Wikipedia is the !rst apparently
sustainable megabook.
It attracts constantly new constructions.
It su"ers from the same problems as big
cities (vandalism, orientation and signage
systems, cleaning, etc.)
45. Many others have fails (Geocities, etc.)
It is crucial to understand well
the rules of successful social growth.
57. Shopping spaces
(1) A company hires professional builders to construct a
shopping district. Entrance is free but visitors will be
encouraged to buy other goods or services from the
company. Alternatively, (2) a company gets specialized in
designing/building shopping districts and sells shopping
spaces to companies of type 1.
This is the business model of
- brochures (1)
- catalogues (2).
Shopping districts > Catalogues, Brochures
58.
59. Advertising spaces
Like the shopping area, entrance is cheap and some
spaces are rented for advertising. What counts is attracting
visitors.
This is the business model of many magazines, newspapers
and websites.
Time square, Shinjuku > magazine
60.
61. Sponsored spaces
A sponsor/the state gives money to an architect and a
building company to produce a space with special
sponsored content/services. It does this essentially to get
recognition in a chosen area.
This is the business model of sponsored books.
Campus, Museum, Gardens
> sponsored books
62.
63. Model: Co-created settlements
In Favelas, inhabitants co-create their own services and
infrastructures.
This is the model of plateforms facilitating the co-creation
of content. The role of authors and readers tend to
merge.
Organic self-organized settlement, Favelas,
Mutualized urban systems
> Co-created content (print and digital)
64.
65. Model 7: Science-!ction cities
Science-!ction provides many interesting city models.
(cities than can change shapes, cities controlled by
computers, etc.). Can they give us idea for new models
for books ?
- Dark City, Matrix, Minority report
- Book-machine
66. Time to work.
Let’s imagine we are in
charge of the great
country of book-cities.
67. 5 Ministries to set the
foundation for a new
period of development.
68. Ministry of Post
Mission: How to create a universal address
system that can designate precisely any
content in any book-city.
Deliverable : A concrete solution working for
all the book-cities of our country.
69. Ministry of Tourism
Mission: How to encourage visitors to come
to the book-cities of our country with
attractive o"ers (organized tours,
subscriptions), well-designed material
(brochures, postcards)
Deliverable: Ex. of actions and campaigns
70. Ministry of Commerce
Mission: How to create economically
sustainable book-cities in which
commercial actors may want to settle
and invest.
Deliverable: Innovative business models
71. Ministry of Population
Mission: How to encourage readers to settle
in book-cities and engage collectively in
their development (private/public spaces,
co-construction, platforms).
Deliverable: Concrete solutions and o"ers
72. Ministry of Connectivity and
Circulation
Mission: How to create new kinds of
connectivity inside and in between
our book-cities. How to optimise
circulation of resources and information.
Deliverable: Connectivity & circulation maps.