organic city http://localhost/taxonomy/term/362/all en Poundbury in China http://localhost/2009/09/20/poundbury-in-china <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://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.035482,121.19227&amp;z=17&amp;t=h&amp;hl=en">Thames Town</a> in Songjiang New City, Shanghai.</p> <p><a href="http://mathieuhelie.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/poundburyinchina2.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-513" title="PoundburyInChina" src="http://mathieuhelie.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/poundburyinchina2.jpg?w=300" alt="PoundburyInChina" width="300" height="200" /></a></p></div></div></div> Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:40:19 +0000 Mathieu Helie 145 at http://localhost Squatter urbanism comes to America http://localhost/2009/04/26/squatter-urbanism-comes-to-america <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 posts I argued that <a href="/how-is-a-subdivision-possible/">the only way a modern housing subdivision was possible was by the creation of a permanent, extreme housing crisis</a> by the authorities attempting to control development. Now this housing crisis is catching up with American cities and a phenomenon that was until then limited to dysfunctional third world countries, squatter camps, is popping up all over the country.</p></div></div></div> Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:35:00 +0000 Mathieu Helie 128 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