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Stellar star forts

Submitted by mathieuhelie on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 15:27
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14 of the best surviving star forts are profiled by WebUrbanist. See the Genesis of Complex Geometry for the morphology behind these amazing structures.

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Roads fit for people

Submitted by Emergent Urbanism on Fri, 08/13/2010 - 21:55
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A video report on the transformation of a congested traffic-controlled intersection into a shared space in Portishead, UK. The concept still needs to be adapted to the blind and people's lifelong habits.

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Borderland/Borderama/Detroit: Part 1

Submitted by Scott.J on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 22:27
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A great series about the decay of Detroit and its emerging status as City/Not.

Highly recommended from the perspective of the Return of Nature, Urban Decay and Modern Ruins. Ironically, some of the images of earth overtaking abandoned urban grids look like many intentionally "green" architectural projects.

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Stephen Wolfram on TED: computational science, complexity, language, and Benoit Mandelbrot

Submitted by mathieuhelie on Mon, 06/14/2010 - 19:18
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Microplexes

Submitted by mathieuhelie on Sat, 04/03/2010 - 15:05
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This is a transcript of a talk delivered at the Bartlett school of Architecture on March 24th 2010, as part of a series of seminars held by the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London.

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Urban Pixel

Submitted by c_frosty on Sun, 04/18/2010 - 14:03
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Urban landscape meets the pixel. Awesome animation by Patrick Jean.

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Unhappy Hipsters

Submitted by mathieuhelie on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 13:04
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Unhappy Hipsters is a tumble blog parody of Dwell Magazine's photographic style. Behind the photographic glamour, it unmasks the anguish of life in modern architecture with scathingly sarcastic captions.

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Nikos Salingaros tears apart and tears down an Italian brutalist failure

Submitted by mathieuhelie on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 19:53
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We are facing competition, unfortunately supported by the Italian press as being of comparable value to our more radical proposals for rebuilding, coming from young architects who are still fixated upon formal geometries and propose some superficial changes such as paint, making the wall surfaces look "contemporary", and other palliatives.

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Industry returns as high-tech, small scale shops in New York

Submitted by Emergent Urbanism on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 20:47
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In Brooklyn, there are several examples of this industry-as-community-builder approach. The Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center started rescuing and rehabilitating factories in 1992.

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Harmony seeking computations as emergence within the environment

Submitted by mathieuhelie on Wed, 03/24/2010 - 10:38
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In this essay, Christopher Alexander details how emergence is not simply a phenomenon of individual parts interacting with each other, but any structure interacting with the environment as part of several specific classes of form. It follows that any act of emergence must extend the environment's wholeness and contribute to it, and not simply appear alienated on the landscape.

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