by Eric Hunting 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 […] read more
International Society of Biourbanism at the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ART, ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN Bologna, Italy, 25-27 June 2014 “Past present and future of public space” is an Italian project, developed as an academic research activity by Dr. Luisa Bravo at the Department of Architecture, University of Bologna (Italy). It aims to explore new dimensions […] read more
A Theoretical issue for Urban and Architectural Design by Tatjana Capuder Vidmar 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 […] read more
by Linley Lutton 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 […] read more
European Prize for Architecture 2013, founder of the Ruin Academy and of the C-LAB, Marco Casagrande is an innovative architect and social thinker who aims at bringing human authenticity back to urbanism, architecture, and art. His biourban acupuncture has become a revolutionary bottom-up and p2p approach to urban planning. He has worked, exhibited, and taught […] read more
I. Professor Nikos Salingaros (USA) appointed Honorary President of the ISB The renowned urban theorist Nikos Salingaros, currently professor of Mathematics at The Texas University at San Antonio, is our Honorary President. We are proud and happy to be able of relying on his exceptional expertise and visionary inspiration. Nikos Salingaros has published some of […] read more
by Stefano Serafini I met Petros at the Economics and the Commons Conference in Berlin, last year, in the colored context of techies, social activists, economists, and more-or-less fancy designers you may expect to see during such occasions. He was offering information about his initiative of travelling along the whole Greece, in search for local […] read more
The documentary «Walking Through The Borgo» filmed in Artena during the Summer School 2012 in «Neuroergonomics & Urban Design» Peleo Film is a dream. It’s a gamble against all the odds, by two students with a great passion for Cinema, who tried to bring to action what they have learnt during their University years. […] read more
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 implementations 1. Centrally-planned urbanism doesn’t address anything but a big-picture view, and misses all the local details that significantly affect the […] read more
by Federico Mena-Quintero and Nikos A. Salingaros P2P (peer-to-peer) Urbanism joins ideas from the open-source software movement together with new thinking by urbanists, into a discipline oriented towards satisfying human needs. P2P-Urbanism is concerned with cooperative and creative efforts to define space for people’s use. This essay explains P2P-Urbanism as the outcome of several historical processes, […] read more