Each urban citizen expects to live in a clean, safe city that continually develops across all spheres. However, such a concept is becoming more utopian each year, as the municipalities fail to satisfy and secure the residents, subjecting them to hazards. One instance of unsustainable city concept is closed cities, making the modern urban environment abnormally vulnerable to decay. Thus, it is critical to discuss how closed systems are particularly distinct from other concepts and their particular effect on the inhabitants.
The closed system cities are a symptom of Brittle towns, where citizens actively express their differences with urban forms, making it easier for residents to cope. Despite the positive connotation of open cities, the overdetermination results in the decay of the infrastructure, stimulating new buildings’ growth instead of refurbishing old ones. As a result of the constant construction process, people are subjected to displacement, thus not allowing them to grow as they should.
The contemporary strategies of city building fail to provide local communities a space to expand and develop because of the methods used in the process, including segregating functions and the homogenizing population. The Brittle City thus represents a symptom of a closed system that most accurately describes contemporary society. Through the unification of cities and the monoculture, the community and unique city areas lose their identity instead of conforming to a monopolist machine that represents an apparent dysfunction.
The closed systems concept automatically implies a strict adherence to the planning and integration of a single design. Such integrative feature does not allow for experiments and creativity within city limits, subjecting it to mundane and unified design, which directly impacts the society. The accumulation of various rules, defining historical, architectural, economic, and social context does not allow for resident societies to grow and develop, instead subjecting to conventional norms of identical lifestyles and limitations. Thus, such homogeneity resulting from the urge for order and control results in a decay of urban society, subjecting them to static living as if in the film Truman Show.