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Oosterwold

Landschap van initiatieven Oosterwold is een groen, agrarisch gebied tussen Almere en Zeewolde. Stap voor stap wordt het gebied ingericht voor wonen, werken en recreëren. Dat doen de Oosterwolders zelf, alleen of met anderen. En zoveel mogelijk duurzaam, ecologisch en zelfvoorzienend.

14 Signs Of An Adaptable Person

The need for adaptability has never been greater than it is now. The ability for people, teams and organizations to adapt to changes in their environments, stay relevant and avoid obsolescence is the defining characteristic between success and failure, growth and stagnation, business and bankruptcy.

Article on Resilience by Mehafy and Salingaros

Lessons learned from biology

Silicon and the Social Credit System

Uh-oh: Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system In China, scoring citizens’ behavior is official government policy. U.S. companies are increasingly doing something similar, outside the law.

Why language might be the optimal self-regulating system - Lane Greene | Aeon Essays

Decades before the rise of social media, polarisation plagued discussions about language. By and large, it still does. Everyone who cares about the topic is officially required to take one of two stances.

Memphis's Spectacular Street Experiments Moving Toward Permanence

Around the start of this decade, Memphis's public experiments were making its streets maybe the most interesting in the United States. In 2010, a business district organized a live weekend demonstration of a handmade protected bike lane and revitalized commercial block.

Brendan Cormier Works

Discussion of Almere, Oosterwold and its generative rules..

What Happens When Algorithms Design a Concert Hall? The Stunning Elbphilharmonie

The most interesting thing about Herzog and De Meuron's newly opened concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie, isn't its wave-like facade, which rises above the city of Hamburg, Germany. It's not the gently curved elevator at the base of the lobby that deposits you into the belly of the Swiss architects' alien landscape.

Top-Down, Bottom-Up Urban Design - The New Yorker

About three years ago, the sociologist Richard Sennett asked his friend and colleague Joan Clos, the executive director of the United Nations Human Settlements Program, if he had ever read the Athens Charter, by the architect Le Corbusier. Published in 1943, the charter shaped the design of European and American cities for decades after the Second World War.

Google and Apple: the High-Tech Hippies of Silicon Valley

For all the talk of "disruption" coming out of Silicon Valley, one thing that has tended to remain stubbornly stuck in the past is tech companies' architecture. Many of today's most innovative companies are housed in deadly dull, boxy and glassy suburban campuses: Google lives in the rehabbed buildings once occupied by Silicon Graphics, Facebook in a laboratory from the 1960s.

Want a Bike-Friendly City? Get Ready to Fail Until It Works

So you want to build some bicycle infrastructure for your city. Good for you. Cycling is good for the planet as well as your citizens' poorly-nourished, ill-used bodies, and studies show more people are willing to ride if cities provide infrastructure to support them.

Play with the tadpoles!

What rules control the agent's behaviors?

Landscape Urbanism

Many Landscape Urbanism projects employ principles that resonate strongly with CAS, particularly the role of time, contingency, non-linearity and the capturing of flows.

Arrow of time

The Arrow of Time, or Time's Arrow, is a concept developed in 1927 by the British astronomer Arthur Eddington involving the "one-way direction" or "asymmetry" of time. This direction, according to Eddington, can be determined by studying the organization of atoms, molecules, and bodies, might be drawn upon a four-dimensional relativistic map of the world ("a solid block of paper").

Block'hood

Digital tools are providing new opportunities for planners to engage the public at a distance. Serious games offer a serious alternative to traditional planning dialogues. "Envision your neighborhood, seek abundance, avoid decay, coexist. a video game by Jose Sanchez Plethora-Project.com"

Tactical Urbanism Leading To Long Term Changes In Indy

Article by Michael Field In 2013 the City of Indianapolis announced its intention to spend upwards of $60 million to redesign Monument Circle. The project would replace decaying infrastructure and include amenities to make the area more pedestrian friendly.