SUCCESSIONISM ISN'T JUST FOR CITIES ANYMORE

Urban Successionism posits that a city evolves one building at a time, that each building is the specific result of the interaction between particular people at a particular time, and that cities are archives of successive economies.  Because of this, one can read a city, understand its metrocosmic ecosystem, and propose ways to evolve it further.

But successionism is not limited to urban evolution; it occurs in all manner of human endeavor: sports, the arts, politics, religion all evolve through a succession of movements, styles, economies, each of which mutates, project by project, a result of one human interaction after another and identifiable as a moment in that evolution only upon aggregation or the passage of time.