http://localhost/taxonomy/term/242/all en http://localhost/2009/10/29/emergent-urbanism-at-the-university-of-montreal <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden prose"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>I was invited to the <a href="http://www.geog.umontreal.ca/syscomplex/">complex systems laboratory</a> of the Université de Montréal this week to present emergent urbanism to their twenty-member large research group. <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mhelie/lurbanisme-mergent-le-rle-de-la-complexit-urbaine-dans-la-pratiqued-de-lurbanisme">Click through to SlideShare</a> in order to see the full text of the presentation under the "notes on" tab. The entire text is in French, however I know a significant share of this website's visitors enjoy French once in a while.</p></div></div></div> Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:24:33 +0000 Mathieu Helie 147 at http://localhost http://localhost/2008/04/15/the-movement-economies <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden prose"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Bill Hillier of <a href="http://www.spacesyntax.org/">Space Syntax</a> is, along with Christopher Alexander and Michael Batty, part of the British old school of urban complexity researchers. (Hillier has joked that he would have used the term "Pattern Language" instead of Space Syntax had Alexander not used it first.) He has studied the functional impact of spatial relationships on human behavior over a career spanning several decades, and came upon some very insightful results.</p></div></div></div> Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:36:14 +0000 Mathieu Helie 94 at http://localhost