Inspired by the rise of AI and hard power thinking (AI, outcome dominated thinking, and other forms of optimization), the New York City Green Urbanism project hopes to refocus emphasis and provide clarity on better defining values/metrics we use to measure our lives.
The project is defined by a shift to place more focus on the parks and third places around New York, a romanticization of these spaces that we don't utilize enough.
It's a fragment of a more radical busines model, one that values slow living, which I believe will yield better results for building resilient and safe communities. Through slow living and understanding how our "why's" ebb and flow within our lives, the Green Urbanism project brings another level of reflection to better sharpen how we live our lives, ultimately bringing another dimension to sustainable and truly impactful urban design.
New York City, known as the hard power and soft power capital of the world. However, even with its immense culture and famous parks, New York, as almost all cities do, lacks the accepted minimum ratio for green/public spaces to buildings and infrastructure. The Green Urbanism project aims to bring attention back to these third places, trailblazing infographics and branding of these parks and other public areas to balance out the current hard power dominated global landscape.
Especially with the rise of AI, nuance from actuality and reality has increasingly become the key soft power tool for building sustainable and impactful change. "Reality has a surprising amount of detail," a saying popularized by programmer John Salvatier, and he explains how through bottom-up learning, rather than top-down learning, currently popularized by AI, is much more antifragile. By building on these antifragile elements, the Green Urbanism project explores where we may strengthen urban decisions in the age of AI and late stage capitalism.
Despite costs being higher and traditional quantitative metrics, such as profit, not as sufficiently met, this project hopes to pioneer how insistence on allocating resources to proper development of culture and soft power will become the defining metric on creating outstanding change.
