http://localhost/taxonomy/term/264/all en http://localhost/2008/07/23/complex-geometry-and-structured-chaos-part-ii <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>Complexity, to employ the definition proposed by Jane Jacobs in the final chapter of Death and Life of Great American Cities, is a juxtaposition of problems. This implies that a complex solution is a juxtaposition of solutions: fractal geometry.</p> <p>How does the way we build arrive at complex solutions to complex problems without driving the builders to madness? How can we solve problems which exist at every scale in space, but also exist at every scale in time? Let's take a look at St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London.</p></div></div></div> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:29:52 +0000 Mathieu Helie 102 at http://localhost http://localhost/2007/11/19/complex-geometry-and-structured-chaos <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>Fractal geometry has infiltrated popular culture since it was formalized in the early 80's from the works of Benoit Mandelbrot. While it has been used to study the form of cities by researchers such as Pierre Frankhauser and Michael Batty, the insights to be drawn from this field of mathematics have not yet penetrated the field of urbanism, defined as the construction of cities.</p></div></div></div> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:08:42 +0000 Mathieu Helie 82 at http://localhost