Conceived as a new text-based language schema, City 2.0 acts as a semantic framework to the built environment enabling professional or layman alike to quite literally author the city. From cultural or historical reference to analysis and research, City 2.0 links the key paradigms of the Web 2.0 revolution (the open source, hyper-locality, user content creation etc. - factors that have already begun to revolutionise both our spatial and socio-economic relationships - to our understanding, approach towards and indeed experience of the city. One of the key elements of City 2.0 is its ability to describe geometries, events and artefacts in both time and space, ready for when the temporal relevancy of the Web improves.
The covering page is speculative in extending Charles Jencks' Evolutionary Tree of Twentieth-Century Architecture (2000) as provocation for what this next century may hold in response to technological advance. The following page provides a more detailed introduction to the emerging concept of the digital city and relevant key paradigms.
