Monthly Archives: October 2013

Complexity & Biourbanism: Thermodynamical Architectural & Urban Models Integrated in Modern Geographic Mapping

Complexity & Biourbanism: Thermodynamical Architectural & Urban Models Integrated in Modern Geographic Mapping by Antonio Caperna and Eleni Tracada Vital elements in urban fabric have been often suppressed for reasons of ‘style’. Recent theories, such as Biourbanism, suggest that cities risk becoming unstable and deprived of healthy social interactions. Our paper aims at exploring the reasons for which, fractal cities, which have being conceived as symmetries and patterns, […] read more