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
Conclusion of the 2019 Biourbanism Summer School in Artena The 4th International Society of Biourbanism (ISB) Summer School, “Designing a Home of Language” (Artena, Italy, July 13–20, 2019), started by acknowledging the problematic situation of communication among humans and humans and their natural and cultural environment. This includes the effects of human relation impoverishment, economic […] read more
Language The power to transmit is skyrocketing while our human capability to communicate is dying. This global phenomenon is accelerating to the point of deteriorating communities and adversely affecting social relations, politics, and justice, along with the symbolic systems of cities, rurality, and landscape. Design We need design to build real communication among human beings, […] read more
by Stefano Serafini An important principle of biourbanism is that nature and culture do not belong to separated aims but interact on a common ground, whose center is the human body. After the great influence of Robin George Collingwood and of his idealism (Collingwood, 1958), 20th century critics tended to regard art and architecture as […] read more
Journal of Biourbanism Volume VII #1/2018 Letter from the Editor by Kay Pallaris Editor in Chief The links between the environmental conditions and human health have long been known and reported. In the last few years, we have seen a resurgence of efforts to rekindle the disciplines of public health and planning. Our early preoccupation […] read more
Journal of Biourbanism Volume VI #1&2/2017 Editor’s Note by Antonio Caperna Editor in Chief, International Society of Biourbanism, Italy In 1984, Edward O. Wilson’s book Biophilia introduced the hypothesis that humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature and living beings. Since then, many studies have been published about the role of natural […] read more
Editor’s Note: The Silence of Design by Stefano Serafini Editor in Chief, International Society of Biourbanism, Italy I. Marx and Engels were among the first to denounce the ugliness of the modern city. The notes by Engels on London as an expanded capitalistic plant that breaks human relations speak for the urban absence of beauty […] read more
by Sinan Logie “Naturally, we were all there,—old Qwfwq said,—where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines? I say ‘packed like sardines,’ using a literary image: in reality there wasn’t even space to pack […] read more
City Space Architecture is proud to announce a series of events for the presentation of first year’s results of the international research project “MaPS. Mastering Public Space“, that will take place next May 23-31, 2015 in Italy. MaPS is a collaborative research network involving more than 25 leading Universities and institutions all around the world. […] read more
ISB’s Summer School programme in “Neuroergonomics and Sociogenesis”, Artena, Italy, July 13th-20th 2014. The program offers seven full days of lectures, practical workshops, and design studios with international experts for exploring how to design urban environments able to revive, support, nourish, and enhance sociality and human relationships. Below you can find all the lectures, and you can […] read more