ON RESILIENT SETTLEMENT
Two very different examples of place networks, not far from each other in London. Top photo, Seven Dials, offering a very complex, rich network, serving human users at a very high level...
A report from a fact-finding delegation of the Council for European Urbanism (including this author) evaluates three new projects with tall buildings in the central city, and concludes the City is damaging...
New research suggests there's a surprisingly large hidden benefit from the network structures of urbanism – but we need new models to harness this powerful resource Author's Note: This is a longer...
NOTE: Sustainable development in Phoenix, like sustainable development around the country and the world, is very often uneconomic in competition with sprawl, unless we take steps to "unlock" the opportunities...
NOTE: Sustainable development in Phoenix, like sustainable development around the country and the world, is very often uneconomic in competition with sprawl, unless we take steps to "unlock" the opportunities...
Note: This post first appeared on the Better! Cities & Towns blog (http://bettercities.net/news-opinion/blogs/michael-mehaffy/15771/new-relevanc... ). This past year we passed a little-noticed milestone...
Note: This is a longer version of a post that is now appearing on the Atlantic Monthly blog, Atlantic Cities. http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2011/10/in-defense-of-portlands-orenco-station...
Among analysts of urban resource use, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, one rather perplexing and tantalizing phenomenon has been widely recognized. Across the globe, there is an enormous...
Radical computer software architects have been using pattern languages with dramatic effectiveness for several decades, thereby revealing a likely missed opportunity for architects of the built environment...
Michael is a strategic consultant in sustainable urban development, and a researcher, author and speaker. He is currently Sir David Anderson Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, and a visiting faculty associate at Arizona State University. He is also managing director of the Sustasis Foundation in Portland, Oregon. His clients include governments, NGOs and leading developers in the US and internationally. He is on the editorial boards of three international urban research journals, and on the boards of other international NGOs and research projects in sustainable development. He is a contributing author of fourteen books. More info: www.tectics.com
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