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Chapter II

NETWORKS OF THE CITIES

The shaping of the volumes making the city having been
addressed, it is now time to analyze the networks that
connect all constructed surfaces.

Concentration and distribution

Amongst other consequences of the NBIC revolution,
the Internet progressively transforms our means of
exchange and the networks associated with them.

Banking operations, purchase of transporta-
tion tickets, or “e-books”, documentation research,
apprenticeship and education are now made “online”
just as management of buildings from a distance, more
and more assisted by robots.

All human activities and services, whether utilita-
rian or immaterial, are increasingly redistributed.

Many activities, that were already concentrated in
the past century for practical and economic reasons,
and that have already given rise to vast mono-func-
tional constructions, are decentralized. We are now
witnessing an inverse movement to decentralization.