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By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted August 18, 2011 at 11:39:39

I'm curious if anyone has any thoughts about this that don't relate to Kunstler or Mahesh's writing style. There's a lot of important ideas to digest, and some which really should be brought up.

The notion of "rhizome cities" really intrigues me, given my penchant for non-hierarchical and decentralized organization, but it does raise a question of broader civic identity and definition. What defines Hamilton in an increasingly (sub)urbanized region? The GTAH is already one of the world's largest conurbations, and far too many neighbouring cities have now gone the way of our old Barton Township. Reminds me in many ways of Murray Bookchin's old work "Urbanization vs Cities" in which he raises these sorts of questions, such as the changing (eroding) notions of citizenship and political consequences of sweeping urbanization. The flip-side of this argument, of course, is the number of smaller municipal entities which we've absorbed since Amalgamation. What about their citizenship and civic identity?

Our city is beset by far too many differences to be 'represented' by any one group. A network of sorts would certainly solve a lot of these problems....

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