medieval city http://localhost/taxonomy/term/337/all en 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 Squaring the circle http://localhost/2009/02/26/squaring-the-circle <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://mathieuhelie.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/tultepec.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-305" title="tultepec" src="http://mathieuhelie.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/tultepec.jpg?w=300" alt="tultepec" width="300" height="153" /></a></p></div></div></div> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:42:38 +0000 Mathieu Helie 123 at http://localhost The complex grid http://localhost/2009/02/16/the-complex-grid <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 a medieval-era city the pace of urban growth is slow to a point where the growth of the city is not consciously noticed. Buildings are added sporadically, in random shape and order, as the extremely scarce economic situation makes no other pattern possible. Typically this means that the shape of streets will match the existing natural paths of movement, giving the street network an organic structure that is preserved through successive transformations in the urban fabric.</p></div></div></div> Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:52:42 +0000 Mathieu Helie 121 at http://localhost