How food shapes our cities: A blue print for a sustainable food and city systems. A través de la perspectiva del alimento, podremos construir ciudades cuyos espacios y actividades pongan de manifiesto la caótica diversidad de nuestras... more
How food shapes our cities: A blue print for a sustainable food and city systems.
A través de la perspectiva del alimento, podremos construir ciudades cuyos espacios y actividades pongan de manifiesto la caótica diversidad de nuestras experiencias sensoriales, y tengan el potencial de venerar las máximas cualidades que tenemos como seres humanos.
The ideas presented in this book are a conceptual leverage to correct the rigidity of top-down practices and bring the real city, or the city of everyday life, closer to the city of conventional planning. Considering self-organization as... more
The ideas presented in this book are a conceptual leverage to correct the rigidity of top-down practices and bring the real city, or the city of everyday life, closer to the city of conventional planning. Considering self-organization as the starting point at the base of complex systems, this book tries to understand how specific qualities emerge and evolve from this behavior. For this, the book discusses new ways of looking at and understanding cities by applying holistic methods and approaches based on the conceptual grounds of quantum, fractal, and complexity theories. The book highlights the fact that the information on how to transform and build a city is contained within the city itself. In this regard, some methodological steps to unpack complexities and translate the essential qualities of space into potential generators for city design and planning are provided. The book urges courageous experimentation and proposes a methodology where the computational nature of urban phenomena goes along with historic anthropological ideas, thus emphasizing the characteristics of a specific reality in a model. They do not exclude each other; in fact, they are part of the unbroken web of wholeness. Importantly, the proposed methodology supports gradual and natural coevolution process in the city through combining planned and unplanned actions and the involving multiplicity of actors, impacting on Urban Planning and Design Practice.
This research proposal introduces and elaborates a specific approach to urban design based on a redefinition and re-evalutation of the concept of ‘organic’ in a morpho-ecological and parametrical paradigm, assumed to unveil new ways of... more
This research proposal introduces and elaborates a specific approach to urban design based on a redefinition and re-evalutation of the concept of ‘organic’ in a morpho-ecological and parametrical paradigm, assumed to unveil new ways of understanding and “planning” the city.
