Comments on Ashraf Salama’s paper: “The New Vitruvius?”
Comments on Ashraf Salama’s paper: “The New Vitruvius?” Nikos A. Salingaros While immensely flattered (and also not a little embarrassed) by this attention given to my work, I feel I must try to set the record straight on one matter. I am very grateful for Dr. Salama’s efforts to acquaint readers with my books, which [...]
How Peer to Peer Communities will change the World
Many of you, while hearing the words “peer to peer”, would instantly remember Napster, eMule and the plethora of technologies and solutions for file sharing that allow the free exchange of files of any type, with the associated problems and controversies related to copyright protection.
Right brain, left brain & space
An unpleasing object, a piece of furniture, a lamppost or a pylon which we find constantly in our field of vision, produces a disturbing stimulus that never allows the nervous system a complete rest – and therewith neither the body nor our emotional state. If the desk remains regularly cluttered with books, papers, pens that could be replaced on the shelf or put in a drawer, it is probable that most of the time the person who works at it finds himself in a state of awareness – or in a modality of the nervous system – characterised by greater activity in the left half of the brain, which is activated precisely by the recognition of objects.
The right to the city: the entitled and the excluded
Over 40 years after Henry Lefebvre’s Le Droit à la Ville (“The Right to the City”, 1968) was conceived, the notion of a “renewed right to urban life”, or in other words “a right to an equitable usufruct of cities within the principles of sustainability, democracy, equity, and social justice” has hardly ever seemed as out of reach as it does today.
Introduction to “Pattern Language”
Using the work of Christopher Alexander and Nikos Salingaros, I present a paper that want discuss the philosophical structure that are behind The Pattern Language (PL). Through a simple way I’ll show you the intimate connection existing among the PL and other cultural aspect like painting as well as the fractal geometry. I have referred my philosophical approach especially to the work of Oswald Spengler and his work “Der Untergang des Abendlandes”
Steady tendency and progress in the study of natural and technological phenomena (biology of form, linguistics, urbanism)
The idea of a very effective scientific network, based upon “biophilic” architecture principles (peer-to-peer, self-organized, scaled, self-similar, and “small-world”-like network) is offered here. The network should be Russian both in language and scientific tradition, offering a paradigm for a new, hyper-connected vision of world science, based on a multi-centric epistemology.
Nuovi strumenti per la pianificazione urbanistica per le città del XXI secolo [IT]
Il passaggio dalla società industriale a una società della conoscenza pone numerose sfide per i progettisti. C’è ancora una grande difficoltà nello sviluppo di teorie, metodi e modelli adeguati alla pianificazione della città del XXI secolo. Se da un lato l’introduzione dei computer in pianificazione nel 1960 faceva parte di un passaggio fondamentale che consente [...]
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