Emanuele will be speaking soon at the Artificial Life Conference- Odense, next 19-23 August 2010. He is presenting his latest research in collaboration with Jeff Jones and Andrew Adamatzky of the International Center for Unconventional Computing,University of the West of England, Bristol. This is the abstract: “Our research aims at studying to what …
Link to article on Planetizen. Fanis Grammenos has reviewed our article on Urban Design International on the ‘Emergent Neighborhood’ model. Fanis has caught the profound potential of the model and its manifold implications for urban design culture. Fanis argues: “While absent in academia, Alexander still exerts influence in these two …
Ref: Porta S, 2008, The World’s Longest Mistake: Sustainable Urban Design and the Renovation of Social Housing Estates: Also a Disciplinary Problem, Urban scrawl, 2, pp.18-21. Download the paper. *** *** Italy is not somewhere that you associate with modernist planning. However while most Italian citizens managed to avoided …
Ref: Porta S. (2008), Analytical tools for time-conscious urban design, in Thwaites K, Romice O, Porta S, Greaves M, Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design, A module in the “Gateways to the Professions” Postgraduate Cross-disciplinary Online Urban Design Programme, Echelon learning Ltd, Reading UK. Download the paper. *** *** This …
Ref: Porta S, Latora V. (2008), The spatial analysis of urban systems: Multiple Centrality Assessment and the dynamics on street networks, in Hasic T (ed), ‘New Urbanism and beyond: the future of urban design’, Rizzoli International, New York, NY. Download the paper. *** *** How can we understand where …
Ref: Porta S, Crucitti P, Latora V (2008), Multiple Centrality Assessment in Parma: a network analysis of paths and open spaces, «Urban Design International», 2008. Download the paper. *** *** This paper got published only in 2008 but was actually written and submitted two years earlier, in 2006. One …
Emanuele is here presenting our work on Networks and Cities at the Institut des Systèmes Complexes Paris Île-de-France in Paris, yesterday June 24th. A great Programme, a wonderful update and more than interesting networking with leading scientist from many fields related with sciences of complex systems. Thanks to the ISC …
Ref: Hart L, Hooi J, Romice O, Porta S, (2010), Under the microscope: 20 small towns in Scotland, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow UK. Download the book: Under the microscope_Part1 Under the microscope_Part2 Under the microscope_Part3 Under the microscope_Part4 Under the microscope_Part5 Under the microscope_Part6 Under the microscope_Part7 Under the microscope_Part8 …
Ref: Hart L, Hooi J, Romice O. (2010), An Comann, 50 Small Scottish Towns, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow UK. Download the book: An Comman_Part1 An Comman_Part2 An Comman_Part3 An Comman_Part4 An Comman_Part5 An Comman_Part6 An Comman_Part7 An Comman_Part8 An Comman_Part9 An Comman_Part10 *** *** Small towns are very much …
Ref: Thwaites K, Romice O, Porta S and Greaves M (2007), Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design: approaches to time, people and place responsive urban spaces, Routledge, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, UK. Download extract in pdf. *** *** What can architects, landscape architects and urban designers do to make urban …
