emergent design http://localhost/taxonomy/term/282/all en The Cultivation of a Spontaneous City http://localhost/2009/07/12/the-cultivation-of-a-spontaneous-city <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 the last of a series of excerpts from my article in the upcoming issue of the <a href="http://www.archnet.org/gws/IJAR/">International Journal of Architectural Research</a>, about the principles of emergent urbanism. </em><em><em>Click <a href="/the-journey-to-emergence/">here for part I</a>, The Journey to Emergence. Click <a href="/the-fundamentals-of-urban-complexity/">here for part II</a>, The Fundamentals of Urban Complexity.</em></em></p></div></div></div> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:11:57 +0000 Mathieu Helie 138 at http://localhost Planning for nomads http://localhost/2009/02/02/planning-for-nomads <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><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2009-01-29-where-we-live_N.htm">Almost half of Americans want to live somewhere else</a>. Even for a nation known for its exceptional mobility, the fact that people are not only moving in pursuit of employment opportunities but are looking to move simply because they hate the place they live in reveals a much deeper problem. Economic opportunity is no longer what keeps people moving, it is what keeps them immobilized. Given the same opportunity they would relocate to the kind of place where life is good.</p></div></div></div> Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:39:16 +0000 Mathieu Helie 119 at http://localhost