building codes http://localhost/taxonomy/term/247/all en The patterns of place http://localhost/2010/02/15/the-patterns-of-place <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><em>(This article originally appeared in Get Ahead Magazine, for the Get Ahead Festival of independent short films in Brooklyn.)</em></p></div></div></div> Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:00:51 +0000 Mathieu Helie 150 at http://localhost The Journey to Emergence http://localhost/2009/03/23/the-journey-to-emergence <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><em>This is part I of a series of excerpts of an article to be published in the <a href="http://www.archnet.org/gws/IJAR/">International Journal of Architectural Research</a> entitled The Principles of Emergent Urbanism. Additional parts will be posted on this blog</em><em> with the editor's permission </em><em>until the complete article appears exclusively in the journal's upcoming issue.<br /></em></p></div></div></div> Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:00:00 +0000 Mathieu Helie 125 at http://localhost Scale-free urban systems http://localhost/2008/04/28/scale-free-urban-systems <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>In previous comments, I have argued that <a href="http://mathieuhelie.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/why-build-cities-anyway/">what makes cities different than building projects was the fact that they have to deal with change and uncertainty</a>, and that <a href="http://mathieuhelie.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/how-is-a-subdivision-possible/">subdivision-planned developments are economically inferior to random growth</a>.</p></div></div></div> Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:07:15 +0000 Mathieu Helie 95 at http://localhost