http://localhost/taxonomy/term/408/all en http://localhost/2009/05/11/the-fundamentals-of-urban-complexity <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 II in an ongoing series of excerpts of an article set to be published this summer in <a href="http://www.archnet.org/gws/IJAR/">The International Journal of Architectural Research</a>, tentatively titled The Principles of Emergent Urbanism. Click <a href="/the-journey-to-emergence/">here for part I</a>, The Journey to Emergence.</em></p></div></div></div> Mon, 11 May 2009 14:00:11 +0000 Mathieu Helie 129 at http://localhost http://localhost/2008/08/29/a-demonstration-of-complexity-in-dubai <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>Dubai's suburban development is often criticized for its poor taste and gigantism. While the products of Dubai megadevelopment are often crude, the engineering feats achieved in producing them are astonishing.</p> <p>Recent pictures of the progress of the Burj Dubai tower, the tallest skyscraper ever built, demonstrate this contradiction in a single frame. The tower itself, while monstrously tall, is nothing very interesting. It consists of speculatively-stacked concrete floors waiting for someone to do something on them. But take a look at what is happening on the ground.</p></div></div></div> Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:49:29 +0000 Mathieu Helie 106 at http://localhost