There is no i in TEAM

The UEC’s discussed in the Gotham article are another great example of the necessity of interdisciplinary cooperation. From what I gathered from the article, the developers and the entertainment companies are the two major players. The developers have the connections on the setup/building side of the equation and the entertainment companies handling the furnishing of the complex. The high level of communication that must take place for a project of this size to be successful is something that every project could learn from. Isn’t it true that the more minds you have working on one task, the more resolved the product will be? Interdisciplinary interaction between major industries, i.e. entertainment and development, is the future of urban renewal. It is true that people are moving out of cities to more suburban areas, but these UEC’s should be successful in bringing a vast majority of people back to the city for their free time. The idea that people will be traveling long distances to these UEC’s ads another level of interdisciplinary communication between the city the UEC inhabits as well as the surrounding cities from with the consumer base will be pulled. A UEC is basically a conglomeration of everything fun for every age group, and interesting enough to hold your attention for 3-5 hours and make you want to come back. How could any of this be possible without a thorough investigation into everything retail by a multitude of cooperating organizations all aiming at a common goal; creating an Urban Entertainment Complex. I feel every discipline can learn from the reoccurrence of interdisciplinary work in retail and architecture.