Experimental city

What is an experimental city?

An experimental city is carefully planned from inception and mostly constructed in a previously undeveloped area. Carefully planning the urban environment should reduce conflicts on land-use and between different members of the community. The utopic idea of experimental cities is to create perfect harmony between people of different cultures and ethnics as well as harmony between architecture and ecology.

Todays’ idea of an experimental city

Since the utopic idea of experimental cities where all live together in harmony is more idealistic then realistic, a realizable concept for experimental cities is needed. According to an article on The long and short, experimental cities should be programmable, which means that they should create a synthesis between strictly planned utopian city projects and improvisational implementation of innovative ideas. In this way, experimental cities are testbeds for new urban solutions in every aspect of the city life. Like pilot cities, experimental cities are test environments for the early adoption and evaluation of innovations. Since for a useful outcome steadily monitoring and possible readjustment is crucial, it is important that experimental cities stay flexible and adopt on changing conditions. Therefore, the main characteristics of experimental cities are flexibility and evolvability.