Seven points for the millennium: an untimely manifesto

Urban planning and policy

“…These improvements should have explicit and noticeable equalization objectives and be focused in poorer areas and in areas where aggrieved groups live. A strategy of 'urban acupuncture' consists of 'catalytic small scale interventions with potentially wide-ranging impacts' which are realizable in a relatively short time (Frampton 2000). Acupuncture interventions in polarized cities should occur at strategic points in the urban fabric-points of hardening, stagnation, trauma, and dysfunction.…”

Thresholds of Fear: Embracing the Urban Shadow

“…3. Ignasi de Sola Morales: 'urban acupuncture' as catalytic small-scale interventions that are realisable within a relatively short period of time and capable of achieving maximum impact on immediate surroundings (Frampton, 1999). 4.…”

Research-Practice Liaison in the Asian Scenario

“…Frampton (2009) observes that whichever the case, the attitude towards the environment as a whole is getting increasingly barbaric. A great deal of inauthentic, acritical and insensitive building is occurring the world over.…”

“…Frampton (2009) emphasizes this as the first point of his seven-point manifesto for the millennium. Nowhere more than the Indian sub continent is this closer to the truth.…”