2009, Neil Leach, Digital Cities AD: Architectural Design→ISBN, page 15:
There is a global convergence in recent avant-garde architecture that justifies its designation as a new style: parametricism. It is a style rooted in digital animation techniques, […]
2013, Tom Verebes, Masterplanning the Adaptive City: Computational Urbanism→ISBN:
Parametricism makes urbanism and urban order compatible with radically liberal market processes. Large-scale city planning receded durign the 1970s, and since then urbanism as a discourse, discipline, and profession has all but disappeared.