Emergent Urbanism

Rediscovering Urban Complexity

generative processes

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.

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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