In a positive departure from modernism, the work of the art critic and
urbanist Ludwig Hilberseimer offers schemata towards the design for the
city itself: its mereological composition. The resonance of parts
unfolds to an alternative of a purely contrasting equation of form and
content. It reminds us, that when the ground (logos) of the city is
defined by its parts (meros), its architecture, the city in turn
always also is part of the architecture as its desire.
The Mereological City introduces a mereological methodology and
contributes to an ongoing discussion about an ecological form of urban
design.