ABSTRACT

The transformation of cities, urban form and modes of everyday life is central to the redirection of humanity away from its unsustainable modes of earthly habitation. It follows, since most of us are urban, that our ontological designing by this transformative process is crucial if we are to be transformed into futurally viable beings. The starting point is with a reiteration and elaboration of unsettlement. Thereafter, the issues of unmaking and remaking will be broached and brought to thinking the future of the city. Affluent nations import produce from around the world in order to support the unsustainable practice of making seasonally grown fruit and vegetables continually available all the year around. These indicative practices go towards the unmaking and remaking city/the urban itself in the short and mid-term, this as both a natural and post-natural environment.