Comments on: The Journey to Emergence http://emergenturbanism.com/2009/03/23/the-journey-to-emergence/ Rediscovering urban complexity Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:35:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: Stephen http://emergenturbanism.com/2009/03/23/the-journey-to-emergence/comment-page-1/#comment-385 Stephen Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:47:20 +0000 http://mathieuhelie.wordpress.com/?p=318#comment-385 I came across your site while searching for pictures of Le Corbusier's hand floating over Plan Voisin. I'm a graduate student of architecture from Miami, FL and I'm in the process of writing an essay on understanding the city from a new discursive perspective as an "emergent entity." Lately I've felt like I'm way out on a limb with the concept. I'm thrilled to find others with similar ideas about urbanism! The work I'm doing now attempts to deconstruct the discourse surrounding urbanism so that the city can be theorized and discussed as emerging from a process that unfolds in space over certain amount of time. I'm applying media theory to urbanism in an effort to strip away the layers of aesthetic clutter that contemporary urban theorists use to describe the city. I'm arguing that the tendency to describe the city in terms of discrete historical and stylistic periods (in the same way we describe individual works of art and architecture) inhibits a total understanding of its history as an emergent entity. Your site fills in all of the gaps that I've been trying fill. This is great! I came across your site while searching for pictures of Le Corbusier’s hand floating over Plan Voisin. I’m a graduate student of architecture from Miami, FL and I’m in the process of writing an essay on understanding the city from a new discursive perspective as an “emergent entity.” Lately I’ve felt like I’m way out on a limb with the concept. I’m thrilled to find others with similar ideas about urbanism!

The work I’m doing now attempts to deconstruct the discourse surrounding urbanism so that the city can be theorized and discussed as emerging from a process that unfolds in space over certain amount of time. I’m applying media theory to urbanism in an effort to strip away the layers of aesthetic clutter that contemporary urban theorists use to describe the city. I’m arguing that the tendency to describe the city in terms of discrete historical and stylistic periods (in the same way we describe individual works of art and architecture) inhibits a total understanding of its history as an emergent entity.

Your site fills in all of the gaps that I’ve been trying fill. This is great!

]]> By: Learning from the slums (2/2): the rediscovery - Style of Design http://emergenturbanism.com/2009/03/23/the-journey-to-emergence/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Learning from the slums (2/2): the rediscovery - Style of Design Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:24:37 +0000 http://mathieuhelie.wordpress.com/?p=318#comment-148 [...] people can live close to each other, and possibilities to randomly meet are maximized. Social organization emerges naturally, and the overall system uses the available resources in the most efficient [...] [...] people can live close to each other, and possibilities to randomly meet are maximized. Social organization emerges naturally, and the overall system uses the available resources in the most efficient [...]

]]> By: Steve http://emergenturbanism.com/2009/03/23/the-journey-to-emergence/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Steve Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:45:13 +0000 http://mathieuhelie.wordpress.com/?p=318#comment-147 It would be nice to continue this line of thought with analyses of specific urban patterns and how the emergent process you describe formed or influenced the pattern. It would be nice to continue this line of thought with analyses of specific urban patterns and how the emergent process you describe formed or influenced the pattern.

]]> By: re:place Magazine http://emergenturbanism.com/2009/03/23/the-journey-to-emergence/comment-page-1/#comment-146 re:place Magazine Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:07:40 +0000 http://mathieuhelie.wordpress.com/?p=318#comment-146 [...] [Inhabitat] Amtrak gets funding for Western services [Railway Age] Wisdom of the small [Economist] The Journey to Emergence [Emergent [...] [...] [Inhabitat] Amtrak gets funding for Western services [Railway Age] Wisdom of the small [Economist] The Journey to Emergence [Emergent [...]

]]> By: Ada Lovelace day: Jane Jacobs « The Downtown Creator http://emergenturbanism.com/2009/03/23/the-journey-to-emergence/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Ada Lovelace day: Jane Jacobs « The Downtown Creator Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:35:43 +0000 http://mathieuhelie.wordpress.com/?p=318#comment-145 [...] the world in her field: a good occasion to talk about the person who gave the biggest contribute to contemporary urbanism, Jane [...] [...] the world in her field: a good occasion to talk about the person who gave the biggest contribute to contemporary urbanism, Jane [...]

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