Research
Paracity
Paracity is a new project of Marco Casagrande which promises to be one of the first full scale demonstrations of a practical peer-to-peer urbanism. Taking advantage of a unique situation on the Danshui River Island in Taipei, Paracity explores a notion of positive urban parasitism, using a novel, freely adaptive, modular, volumetric structural skeleton serving […] read more
Eric Hunting
Appreciation of unseen existing spaces
A Theoretical issue for Urban and Architectural Design Abstract “We must now discover how to do more with less, how to successfully design with nature, and how to ecologically design our communities. . .” (1)This article, with its insight into the history of Western European spatial development, will attempt to demonstrate that the above […] read more
Tatjana Capuder Vidmar
Elizabeth Quay
This is a compelling account of community disempowerment and poor city planning The story of Elizabeth Quay in Perth, Western Australia needs telling. Perth is a relatively young coastal city of 1.7 million people. It has a Mediterranean climate, an easy-going lifestyle and a wonderful large central river. The city was assaulted by developers in […] read more
Linley Lutton
Peer to Peer (P2P) Urbanism
Definition prepared by the “Peer-to-peer Urbanism Task Force” consisting of Antonio Caperna, Michael Mehaffy, Geeta Mehta, Federico Mena-Quintero, Agatino Rizzo, Nikos A. Salingaros, Stefano Serafini, and Emanuele Strano. Part A. Problems with existing urban implementations1. Centrally-planned urbanism doesn’t address anything but a big-picture view, and misses all the local details that significantly affect the […] read more
Education
Socio-Spatial transformations under the state of emergency in Greece
INTERNATIONAL BIOURBANISM WORKSHOPHeraklion Crete, Greece | August 1st-9th 2014 COURSE SUMMARYThe international Biourbanism workshop “Socio-spatial transformations under the state of emergency in Greece” is a 9 days workshop organized by the Autonomous Research Lab of Crete and the International Society of Biourbanism. The programme consists of three labs, the P2P – Open Source – […] read more
A New Paradigm for Deep Sustainability: Biourbanism
Biourbanism introduces new conceptual and planning models for a new kind of city, valuing social and economical regeneration of the built environment through developing and healthy communities. Thus, it combines technical aspects, such as zero-emission, energy efficiency, information technology, etc. and the promotion of social sustainability and human well being. In effect, this new paradigm […] read more
Eleni Tracada, Antonio Caperna
