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.

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.

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