Latency as the Desaturator of Cities: Metropolitan Acupuncture

This is an investigation on cities, our cities, and their ever-growing battle with densification. As cities become increasingly densified, their density begins to encroach onto the human space, preventing its inhabitants from building relationships with the spaces they inhabit. This paper seeks to explore marginal and unconventional ways to design urban spaces in order to both prevent and remediate saturated urban conditions from taking root, utilizing the spaces of the city which seem unsuitable for the use of the public. This is a provocation to instigate the search for new ways in which people can continue to express their human condition in spaces that tend to keep increasing in density.