This issue of AD introduces a new approach to architectural practice based on the interrelationship of emergence and self-organisation concepts. A sequence to the successful Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies title by the same guest-editors, it advances on the previous p…
Part of the "Architectural Design" series, this book introduces a different approach to architectural practice based on the interrelation of concepts, such as emergence and self-organisation with the potentials of the various developments for fully integrated design evolution, m…
System city: infrastructure and the spaces of flows
by Weinstock, Michael, Busquets, Joan
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"A radical shift is taking place in the way that society is thinking about cities, a change from the machine metaphors of the 20th century to mathematical models of the processes of biological and natural systems. From this new perspective, cities are regarded not simply as spat…
From a new perspective, cities are regarded not simply as spatially extended material artefacts, but as complex systems that are analogous to living organisms, exhibiting many of the same characteristics. There is an emerging view that the design of the thousands of new cities n…
System city: infrastructure and the space of flows
A radical shift is taking place in the way that society is thinking about cities, a change from the machine metaphors of the 20th century to mathematical models of the processes of biological and natural systems. From this new perspective, cities are regarded not simply as spati…