Have a look at this recent article of Roger Ebert on the Chicago Sun-Times. Interesting enough, Roger’s piece continues a series of writings from non-architects that have the power to reveal what architecture and urbanism is, should be, or is not. The list includes Jane Jacobs (“Death and Life of Great …
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 …
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 …
The PgDip is a nine months full-time or 18 months part-time course for a total of 120 credits; subject to approval by the Course Director and the satisfactory completion of all diploma work students are given the opportunity to extend their PgDip course of study for an additional three months …
This website (http://codesproject.asu.edu/) is an anthology of the codes, laws and related documents that have created, or sought to create, particular urban forms. It is a searchable archive drawn from a broad array of historical documents. Documents have been selected from around the world, and from all time periods. Both …
Do not miss this beautiful and comprehensive article by Laurence Aurbach on pedhsed.net . Find the whole article here. An exerpt from the Introduction: “Every field has its foundational working concepts and the field of traffic engineering is no exception. It has a concept called functional classification, which is the …
As part of the MSc in Urban Design and in partnership with the ESUA/EDUAC project our Unit organized a workshop in two parts. Firstly, a conference was held at Strathclyde in mid December 2009 with Robert Adam and Sjoerd Soeters speaking about design codes and their impact on sustainable urban …
A nice gallery of shots taken the day of the MScUD end-of-the-year exams. It was a tiring, engaging day, but also a lot of fun! [smooth=id:1] Here is the program: 09:00-09:30 Staff meeting in F0 09:30-10:00 Intro to students’ work (Semester 1 and Code) 10:00-13:00 Reviews in 2 separate panels …
Download the flyer Download Nikos’ presentation Nikos Salingaros came visiting our Urban Design course at Polytechnic of Milan in the summer of 2008. He gave a lecture to our students and many other staff members, scholars and students in the morning, then helped in a pre-grading review of student’s works …
