Emergent Urbanism

Rediscovering Urban Complexity

Leon Krier

Leon Krier's lesson in architecture

Submitted by Mathieu Helie on Tue, 12/29/2009 - 13:36, last updated Sun, 11/06/2011 - 00:50

Review of The Architecture of Commun

Creating the emergent dimension, or learning from Wikipedia

Submitted by Mathieu Helie on Tue, 09/30/2008 - 22:29, last updated Sun, 11/06/2011 - 01:04

In Architecture: Choice or Fate, his manifesto for New Urbanism, classicist Leon Krier produced many inspirational images of urban complexity, going as far as a fractal comparison of modern and traditional buildings. The cover of the book, a fictional resort town for Tenerife, presents a fascinating case study of complex symmetry; no building is the same as another, but all share the same geometric properties. That would not be unusual had it not been an architectural manifesto.

A measure of urban connection

Submitted by Mathieu Helie on Fri, 12/07/2007 - 15:58, last updated Sun, 11/06/2011 - 01:11

What does it mean for a city to be connected? And is there quality resulting from this property? Let's define the basic node of a city as a doorway. (Not necessarily a building. A single building can have many doorways to separate spaces.) A connection is the distance from this doorway to the next node, that is to say the next doorway. A well connected city is a city where the distance from doorway to doorway is minimized, since everything will be easily accessible from the public space.

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