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 …
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; …
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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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