Urban Morphology

Principles published

Mathieu Helie — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:57:37 +0000

The full article conceptualizing the principles of emergent urbanism has been published by the International Journal of Architectural Research volume 3 issue 2. You can download the complete article or read the whole issue.

Squaring the circle

Mathieu Helie — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:42:38 +0000

Slumdog Urbanist

Mathieu Helie — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:13:29 +0000

A great article appeared in the NY Times about the setting for this year's multiple academy-award winning film Slumdog Millionaire, which I recommend as an instant classic of urban filmmaking, the post-shantytown Dharavi.

Decoding paradise - the emergent form of Mediterranean towns

Mathieu Helie — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:43:34 +0000

Serifos in Greece

Producing land with nested markets

Mathieu Helie — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:57:26 +0000

The Poundbury Grid, from Streets and Patterns by Stephen Marshall

A demonstration of complexity in London

Mathieu Helie — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:52:54 +0000

The immensely productive Physicist-Mathematician-Entrepreneur Stephen Wolfram theorized, based on his studies of cellular automatons in the 1980's, that there exists four classes of physical processes in the universe. Class I is simple continuous behavior (line). Class II is repetitive behavior (checkerboard). Class III is nested, hierarchical-fractal behavior (basic fractals like the Sierpinski triangle). Class IV, the most fascinating, is chaotic behavior (random fractals such as the Mandelbrot Set).