by Nikos A. Salingaros Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States of America *Originally published in the Journal of Biourbanism, 8(1/2019), 13–34 ABSTRACT: By estimating certain features of the built environment, we can predict positive healing effects that spaces and structures may have on users. This can be estimated before something is built. […] read more
by Nikos Salingaros Originally published in the Journal of Biourbanism Volume IV Issue 1&2/2015. ABSTRACT: Simple yet powerful rules that govern complex systems shed light on human environments. Built environments that evolve freely over time develop a working complexity that is characteristic of both nature and traditional urban fabric. A city or portion of city without […] read more
Economics is a stately subject, prim and respectable, one that’s altered little since its modern foundations were laid in Victorian times. Now it is changing rapidly, thanks to the work of a small group of researchers over the last two decades in New Mexico. The story started in 1987, when two Nobel prize winners, economist […] read more
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
by Antonio Caperna Abstract The epistemological reformulation is based on two elements: the science of dynamic complex systems and the Copernican revolution, which is occurring in the life sciences. Biourbanism aims to reformulate the epistemological foundation of architecture and urbanism, according to the science of dynamic complex systems and science of life. The first aspect […] read more
BIOURBANISM FOR A HUMAN-CENTERED SUSTAINABLE DESIGN Artena (Rome, Italy) – July 21st/28th 2013 summerschool-artena.tumblr.com | summerschool@biourbanism.org After the success of the first interdisciplinary Summer School in Neuroergonomics and Urban Design which gathered fantastic people from 11 Countries into a deeply […] read more
by Nikos A. Salingaros Trying to measure the complexity of a system is not straightforward. The simplest measure of a system’s complexity reflects not so much its intrinsic complexity, or the complexity of the process that generated it, but the complexity of the system’s description. As such, this approach is not without its limitations. We […] read more