Urbanomy

Urbanomy refers to studying the laws of cities, or the laws of formations of cities. 
A neologism apparently coined by Nick Land,
When a city grows, it does not ‘urbanize’ (only a wider social system can do that). Urbanization applies to a society that becomes proportionately more urban, as rural people move into cities, but when an individual city develops – and in fact individuates – it undergoes urbanomy (on the model of ‘teleonomy’). [Nick Land, July 29, 2013]In the introduction to Urbanomy, he suggests that the Cities of our late-capitalist world are specific types of abstract machines: chronogenic factories, or time-making social machines. [S.C. Hickman]posted in Time machinery and tagged Cities, Development, Time by admin.
Articles on Nick Land's Urbanomy:
* «Chronogenesis & Urbanomy», S.C. Hickman, June 6, 2015.