Para-site Paradigm Shifts in Urban Environments

Today information and knowledge base technologies have changed many features of our daily lives, but still the information revolution is more about the computers rather than people. We are at the beginning of a new era of computing and information paradigms which can change our lives dramatically (Mattern,2001). While the personal computers, Internet and World Wide Web have already changed many aspects of business, entertainment and science; the next wave of technological revolution is emerging in smart tools and spaces. Smart spaces make our future urban environments more environmental responsive and self organized, in which intelligent tools change our urban behaviour. The result is emerging a new urban and architecture agenda, based on information and knowledgebase revolution. From a focus on the process of shaping the information society this article deals with the issue of how changing of tools and paradigms change the shape of our built environment in future? In nutshell, this article aims to study the evolution of urban tissues according to information and knowledge base