Emergent Urbanism

Rediscovering Urban Complexity

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The patterns of place

Submitted by Mathieu Helie on Mon, 02/15/2010 - 15:00, last updated Sun, 11/06/2011 - 00:50

(This article originally appeared in Get Ahead Magazine, for the Get Ahead Festival of independent short films in Brooklyn.)

The Journey to Emergence

Submitted by Mathieu Helie on Mon, 03/23/2009 - 07:00, last updated Sun, 11/06/2011 - 01:02

This is part I of a series of excerpts of an article to be published in the International Journal of Architectural Research entitled The Principles of Emergent Urbanism. Additional parts will be posted on this blog with the editor's permission until the complete article appears exclusively in the journal's upcoming issue.

Scale-free urban systems

Submitted by Mathieu Helie on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 01:07, last updated Sun, 11/06/2011 - 01:16

In previous comments, I have argued that what makes cities different than building projects was the fact that they have to deal with change and uncertainty, and that subdivision-planned developments are economically inferior to random growth.

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