Journal of Biourbanism Volume VIII # 1/2019 Editor’s Note: The Politics of Murmur by Stefano Serafini Editor in Chief, International Society of Biourbanism, Italy The making of an independent journal requires an amount of freedom (first of all in the form of time), which is becoming increasingly scarce. This issue was supposed to come out […] read more
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
Editor’s Note Sara Bissen Editor in Chief, The Ruralist Body, United States of America The city smells of decay. Not by chance, politics is dead. If politics is dead, it is because our words have become empty. As if we no longer inhabit them. As if they are no longer filled with soil. This issue […] 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 Nikos Salingaros and Michael Mehaffy How Modernist Fundamentalism degrades the human and natural environment Many research studies show a remarkable divergence between the way architects see their work and the way non-architects do — to such a degree that it is not uncommon to hear ordinary people wondering aloud how it is that architects, […] read more
Issue 2nd, Year 2nd | 2012 www.journalofbiourbanism.org | ISSN 2240-2535 | Biannual review edited in Rome, Italy For this issue some distinguished authors have also submitted their work to be peer reviewed and eventually be published alongside with PhD scholars work. It is an honour for us in Biourbanism to get so much response to […] read more
by Michael Mehaffy and Nikos A. Salingaros There’s a quiet, but important, revolution going on in environmental design today. It started in hospitals, of all places. Medical science has long used an “evidence-based” methodology. It’s a trial-and-error process that goes through an evolutionary cycle: the doctor tries something, evaluates it, then goes on to use […] read more
by Nikos A. Salingaros Techne Press, Amsterdam, Holland: 252 pages. This monograph introduces the unifying notion of the network city to understand urban phenomena as components of a complex system, using concepts such as “fractal loading” and the brain-computer analogy. Scientific principles underlying urban form surprisingly support traditional concepts of urban planning. “Urban coherence” links […] read more
by Nikos A. Salingaros “Traditional architecture and urbanism require a sense of modesty and humility from the individual creator towards the sacred creation of the universe, as well as a basic intuition that concepts of beauty, harmony, justice, truth, and rightness are permanent and universal” — Lucien Steil. For the past few years, I have […] read more
Summer School 2012 inNeuroergonomics and Urban DesignBiourbanism for a Human-Centered Sustainability and Effectiveness Artena (Rome, Italy) – 15–23 July 2012 MAIN ISSUES I. Mimesis and Environment Students will be introduced by practical experiments and scientific literature review to the acknowledgment of how forms and space affect cognitive abilities and psycho-biological conditions in order […] read more