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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If you have an account in any of the major social networks, you can connect to Emergent Urbanism immediately. You could be earning points right away!
Emergent Urbanism Network is a social media portal for emergent urbanists, a community of planners, designers, builders, thinkers and others who are enthusiastic about urbanism. Any member may post nodes or vote on them. The best nodes selected by the community float up to the top of their channel before decaying away to be replaced by new nodes. This makes the network at once a forum, portal, community and social network.
Traditional urban planning portals have relied on the central planning model of editors choosing what does or does not deserve attention. Emergent Urbanism Network recognizes that urban complexity is made by citizens, not planners, and relies on its citizens to decide what is relevant by providing a simple and clear process through which the network is grown.
To start, simply connect with your favorite social media account, then create nodes.
This website is still under heavy alpha development. If you spot any issues, tweet us @emurbanism.
The Emergent Urbanism Network is designed and developed by Mathieu Hélie. Copyrighted under Creative Commons.
