Wild City

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WILD - occuring, growing without supervision or restraint; not domesticated, cultivated or tamed; the wild city is the urban paradigm of contemporary Belgrade.

ALTERNATIVE - actions conducted by large numbers of individuals, simultaneously, as a compensation for malfunctions of establishments and mainstreams.

EVOLUTION - continuous progress from the homogenous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality and function.

URBAN SPRAWL - uncontrolled growth of compact urban centres, with extensions into public, void space and onto existing buildings.

PROTOTYPE - an original urban form or instance, serving as a basis or standard for the design practice.

INCUBATOR - an idea of a city of permanent urban innovation; one which permits and encourages the formation and development of new urban species.

PARADOX - a proposition contrary to the prevailing practice; a sentiment seemingly contradictory; that which in appearance or terms seems absurd, yet may be true.

BENEFICIAL VIRUS - alien presence, instigated by a degrading institutional body, which becomes an inevitable, corrupting and vital force.

URBAN GENETICS - discovering inherent scripts of unforeseen processes of urban transformations under a hypothesis that their outcomes are more sophisticated than the designed ones.

LIFE - synonym for evolutive design, rather than the magazine, the breakfast cereal, the 1950s-era game board or the human state of existence.

CRISIS - a crucial or decisive moment or situation, a sudden change in the course of events, often towards improvement rather than deterioration.