'The Kinetic City' presents a lens that enables us to better understand the blurred lines of contemporary urbanism and the changing roles of people and spaces in urban society. The increasing concentrations of global flows have exacerbated the inequalities and spatial divisions of social classes. In such a context, an architecture or urbanism of equality in an increasingly inequitable economic condition requires a deeper exploration ? to find a wide range of places to mark and commemorate the cultures of those excluded from the spaces of global flows. These do not necessarily lie in the formal production of architecture; rather, they often challenge it. Here the idea of a city is an elastic urban condition?not a grand vision, but a "grand adjustment." AUTHOR: Rahul Mehrotra is an architect, urbanist and educator who is the Founding Principal of RMA Architects, as well as Chair and Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.
