"THE INDUCTION CITY" Project: Solution for the Complex Systems of the City

The Undesignable Cityscape: ×Project Cities
The "induction cities" project began with our conclusion that a city cannot be designed.

URBAN DESIGN

http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/graduate-school/pdf/urban-design.pdf

Michael W. Mehaffy

Generative methods in urban design: a progress assessment The year 2007 marked the 20-year anniversary of A New Theory of Urban Design (1987), a slender volume by Christopher Alexander and colleagues that serves as a notable milepost within the half-century old “design methods movement” in which Alexander himself played a seminal role. The “generative” design method of A New Theory focused less upon the specification of a final form through schematic planning, and more on the stepwise process by which a form might emerge from the evolutionary actions of a group of collaborators. In so doing, it challenged the notion of “design” as a progressive expression of schematic intentions, and argued for a conception of design as a stepwise, non-linear evolution in response to a series of contextual urban factors. In the 20 years since, significant progress has been made to develop the insights of generativity in urban design, as in other fields. Some of Alexander's ideas have been incorporated - notably by practitioners of The New Urbanism - and some have been challenged and dismissed, including, notably, by Alexander himself. The author assesses progress since this milepost volume - substantial, he argues - as well as setbacks and shortcomings, and significant opportunities still remaining.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a791741861&fulltext=713240928

Markus Wikar

http://www.markuswikar.com/architecture/shibuya/index.html

Lhasa Bioregional Urbanism

http://www.resilientcity.org/site/ywd_craigapplegath/assets/pdf/UD_Hon_Mention_1_-_S4-0045.pdf

Urban Design: Hybrid Algorithm

http://www.archi-europe.com/news-633-ResilientCity.org_Design_Ideas_Competition_Winners.html

bk2a architektur

http://www.bk2a.de/index2.htm

Fairuz Reza Razali

Urban Ecologies

http://annecleopatra.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3F3D582961513B14!1577.entry
http://www.dysturb.net/2008/final-presentations-at-the-berlage-institute-watch-live/

Nate Andrysco

Urban Grammar
A continuation of the AMUSE project which deals with visualizing large urban
environments. In Urban Grammar, a 2D map of a city is parsed to detect roads, land
boundaries, and building outlines. The parsing creates a unique grammar which
describes the city. Once the information is obtained, we can then derive new cities in the
style of the original using the grammar. This process includes how to obtain the
boundary data, how parsing is conducted, and how derivations are done. It will also be
shown how cities may be edited so that a city planner may use this tool for his work.
Issues involved in editing are grammar simplification, region similarity estimation, and ngon
to m-gon mapping. Grammar simplification greatly helps reduce the number of
computations needed during derivation. Similarity estimation is an essential tool needed
in derivations and most phases of editing. N-gon mapping is used to project texture
coordinates from a region in the original city to a new, possibly deformed, region in the
edited city.

Creation of 3D Cities

Pascal Mueller is co-founder and CEO of Pascal Mueller is co-founder and CEO of Procedural Inc., an ETH spin-out company specialized in software for the efficient creation of 3D buildings and cities.

http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~pmueller/research.html

Generative circulation patterns for architecture and urban design with agent modelling

Renee Puusepp
http://wiki.uelceca.net/phdstudents/published/Generative+circulation+patterns+for+architecture+and+urban+design+with+agent+modelling http://www.sfbtr8.spatial-cognition.de/papers/SFB_TR%208%20Rep%20015-05_2008.pdf

Density, via the Weaire-Phelan structure, the Holbæk Kasba and the Monaco House

“How do you combine the harbour areas on the big scale with intimacy with intimacy and sensory experiences on the human scale? We propose to construct a dense and low kasba of dwellings that have been twisted and turned thus creating a labyrinth of small open spaces and hiding spaces for life, play and socialising between the houses. The kasba is placed on an artificial sloping hill that raises the built-up area for parking underneath and providing each residence its own view of the water and life on the harbour.” [BIG]

http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2008/08/bubbles-as-grid.html

http://www.big.dk/projects/hhh/hhh.html

Urban RE:Vision

Something incredible is about to happen in downtown Dallas.Soon, a single block will be transformed into a place that creates economies,supports community, facilitates relationships and generates resources.
The winners of Re:Vision Dallas have created plans thatchallenged us, engaged us, and inspired us.
http://www.urbanrevision.com/ReVision-DALLAS-Results
http://dn.sapo.pt/inicio/artes/interior.aspx?content_id=1262193&seccao=Arquitectura
http://www.moov.tk/
http://www.sputnik-webzine.blogspot.com/

PATTERN

Every city has its intimate pattern: the streets, squares, and other openings that make building accesible and liable. In ancient cities and those of North America today the pattenrn is highly irregular. (Lynch, 1954).

In part two we present some of the 67 general design principles which we call patterns. These patterns describe, in abstract sense, the lessons which a Peruvian architect might learn from our designs, and could re-use, over and over again, in his own designs. (Alexander, 1971:84)

A city is a pattern in time (Holland, 1995:1).

The pattern represents a continuity: the deliberate application of something already done. Yet each instance of the pattern may involve a different decision, agent place, or time. over time, different interventions introduce variation as a natural by-product of freedom of execution and interpretation, within the rules governing each pattern. (Habraken, 1998:238-239)

Historia de signos mudos construidos a partir de la conducta colectiva de grupos mas pequeños, difícilmente detectados por quienes no pertenecen al grupo. (Johnson, 2003:39)Los átomos de la estructura del medio ambiente son relaciones. Las relaciones son patterns geométricos. (...) Una lista de las relaciones que se requieren en un edificio reemplaza el programa de diseño (o brief) y las primeras etapas de croquis. (Alexander, 1980:75)


Alexander, Christopher (1966) The Pattern of Streets. En Journal of the American Planning Association. September, pp.273-279.
Carson, Daniel H. (1967) Comments on The Pattern of Streets. En Journal of the American Planning Association. November, pp.409-414
Alexander, Christopher y otros (1969) Houses generated by patterns. Berkeley, CA: Center for Environmental Structure.
Alexander, Christopher (1971) Houses generated by patterns. En Architects Year Book Volume 13: The Growth of Cities, David Lewis (editor). New York: Wiley-Interscience. pp.84-114.
Alexander, Christopher (1974) A Collection of Patterns which Generate Multi-Service Centres. En Architects Year Book Volume 14, David Lewis (editor). New York: Wiley-Interscience. pp. 141-180.
Lynch, Kevin (1954) The Form of the Cities. En Scientific American 190, no. 4, pp. 54-63. Reimpreso en City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch (1990) Tridib Banerjee y Michael Southworth (Eds.) . Cambridge: MIT Press. pp.47-64.
Lynch, Kevin (1961) The Pattern of the Metropolis. En Daedalus, 90, no.1, pp. 79-98. Reimpreso en City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch (1990, 1996) Tridib Banerjee y Michael Southworth (Eds.) . Cambridge: MIT Press. pp.35-46.
Poulton, Michael (1982) The Best Pattern of Residential Streets. En Journal of the American Planning Association. 48, 4. December, pp.466-480.
Turner, J. C. (1968) Housing Priorities, Settlement Patterns, and Urban Development in Modernizing Countries. En Journal of the American Planning Association. 34, 6. November, pp. 354-363.

Importante referência que encontrei no Blog arquitecturayemergencia.

http://arquitecturayemergencia.blogspot.com/2009/03/patron-patterns.html

Search for Urban Spaces

http://www.holisticcity.co.uk/urbanspaces/

Concurso Eco-barrios 2006

ISCTE - Pedro Frutuoso, Filipa Barrequero, Maria João, Pedro Bichinho

http://www.cscae.com/eb06/

http://www.atelierdocardoso.com/telhados01.htm

FIBONACCI ALGORITHM

http://verenavogler.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/fibonacci-algorithm/

[ Plasmastudio + Groundlab ] Xi’an World Horticultural Expo

http://5osa.tistory.com/entry/Plasmastudio-Groundlab-Xi’an-World-Horticultural-Expo

What makes a neighborhood walkable?

BRASILIA: Contemparary Dynamics of a Model

http://www.ifhp2007copenhagen.dk/Student%20Competition/Project%20Gallery.aspx?ProjectID=ec6e1331-2623-4b60-ad13-30b4a99524be