THE NETWORKED CITY

Los Angeles is a city of private homesteads, each separated from the greater urban fabric by vast setbacks and restrictive, use-based zoning laws. What if we threw away this model and adopted a completely different form of urbanism within our existing built environment – one where the city consists of only two categories: public domestic fragments, and private indeterminate space? Under this model of ‘networked urbanism,’ these two categories of spaces are codependent on each other – public domestic fragments provide the utilitarian infrastructure for our daily functional needs, and private indeterminate space offers the blank canvas for whatever the user sees best fit, whether it be living space, retail, office, or something else entirely.