Emergent Urbanism

Rediscovering Urban Complexity

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The Cultivation of a Spontaneous City

Submitted by Mathieu Helie on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 22:11, last updated Sun, 11/06/2011 - 01:01

This is the last of a series of excerpts from my article in the upcoming issue of the International Journal of Architectural Research, about the principles of emergent urbanism. Click here for part I, The Journey to Emergence. Click here for part II, The Fundamentals of Urban Complexity.

Planning for nomads

Submitted by Mathieu Helie on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 00:39, last updated Mon, 04/09/2012 - 15:25

Almost half of Americans want to live somewhere else. Even for a nation known for its exceptional mobility, the fact that people are not only moving in pursuit of employment opportunities but are looking to move simply because they hate the place they live in reveals a much deeper problem. Economic opportunity is no longer what keeps people moving, it is what keeps them immobilized. Given the same opportunity they would relocate to the kind of place where life is good.

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