Joseph Lambke Sets the Precedent for a Polycentric Urban Future to Design for Movement

Source: International Business Times

Joseph Lambke At first glance, cities appear to be expanding, yet the experience of living within them can feel increasingly constrained. With stretched commutes, homogenized neighborhoods, and infrastructure struggling to keep pace with how people actually move and live, Joseph Lambke, founder of Animate Architecture, frames these bottlenecks as a misalignment embedded deep within modern urban design. To address them, Lambke advocates for polycentricity, which he believes challenges the centralized logic inherited from 20th-century city planning.