Junkspace and Cities

Junkspace is to architecture as suburbs are to cities - unable to exist without its counterpart but necessary for the future. Both junkspace and suburbs would not exist without first having architecture and cities and now both are necessary to understand as we look forward.

Suburbs began to grow as technology improved to where it was no longer required to live within the city. People had more space, relied on their cars, and could find everything they needed in strip malls or shopping malls. Cities kept sprawling to provide the “most comfortable” way to live to live, which has resulted in the car dependent, anti-social, and unsustainable society that we live in today. 

Similarly, junkspace developed just as rapidly as suburbs due technology and the desire for easy solutions. It created a counterpart to architecture that didn’t want to try to and imitate it but rather replace it in a simpler way. Junkspace multiplied at an unbelievable rate and made a architecture a thing of the past.

But now, after cities have conformed to the idea of creating suburban life and architects have given in to the creation of junkspace, there is a desire for urban life and the independent uniqueness of what architecture used to be. We wouldn't have reached this point in time without junkspace (or suburbs). Can we use what we have learned from junkspace to create architecture and what we have learned from suburbs in the return to the city? Is there a way to densify sprawling areas to create urban identities? Can junkspace be turned into architecture?