Urbanisation of Panic

I was searching the Occupied London (an journal of theory and action that has spouted from the occupy london movement) website today and found article by Finoki. A couple of poignant points are extracted below.

"During the past centuries, the building of the modern urban environment used to be dependent on the rationalist plan of the political city. The economic dictatorship of the last few decades has accelerated the urban expansion. The interaction between cyber-spatial sprawl and urban physical environment has destroyed the rationalist organisation of the space."


"can the city be viewed as an architectural weapon to enforce a certain behavioral code, or to forcefully spatialize neo-liberalism in a way, to rear obedience (or addiction) to a rampant commerce?"

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/urbanisationofpanic/