Category Archive: 2.1 knowing everything

Ray Kurzweil: The Singularity Is Near

Ray Kurzweil: The Singularity Is Near

Source: www.kurzweilai.net/singularity-q-a   Singularity Q&A December 9, 2011 by Ray Kurzweil Originally published in 2005 with the launch of The Singularity Is Near.   Questions and Answers   So what is the Singularity? Within …

 

Venturi – Learning from Las Vegas (1972)

Venturi – Learning from Las Vegas (1972)

PART I A SIGNIFICANCE FOR A&P PARKING LOTS, OR LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS “Substance for a writer consists not merely of those realities he thinks he discovers; …

 

Camillo Sitte – City Planning According to Artistic Principles (1889)

Camillo Sitte – City Planning According to Artistic Principles (1889)

MODERN SYSTEMS. ARTISTIC LIMITATION OF MODERN CITY PLANNING From City Planning According to Artistic Principles (1889), Translated by George R. Collins and Christiane Crasemann Collins (London: …

 

Cullen – The Concise Townscape (1961)

Cullen – The Concise Townscape (1961)

INTRODUCTION There are advantages to be gained from the gathering together of people to form a town. A single family living in the country can scarcely …

 

Paul Krugman : How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?

Paul Krugman : How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?

I. MISTAKING BEAUTY FOR TRUTH It’s hard to believe now, but not long ago economists were congratulating themselves over the success of their field. Those successes …

 

Space Syntax: The fundamental city

Space Syntax: The fundamental city

From “Space is the Machine”, pg 262-267   Cities as things made of space In the previous chapter it was suggested that the relation between human beings and …

 

World-Systems Analysis

World-Systems Analysis

From Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century. New York: Academic Press, 1976, pp. …

 

Koolhaas – The Generic city

Koolhaas – The Generic city

from: The Generic City: SMLXL by REm Koolhaas l. Introduction 1.1 Is the contemporary city like the contemporary airport- “all the same”? Is it possible to …

 

Lynch – The Image of the City

Lynch – The Image of the City

from: Lynch – The Image of the City Building the lmage Environmental images are the result of a two-way process between the observer and his environment. The …

 

Bosselmann – Urban transformations: cities from a satellite

Bosselmann – Urban transformations: cities from a satellite

Steen Eiler Rassmussen might have been the first to use a comparative method to show the continuous urbanization of cities when he explained the difference …