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An incredible encyclopaedic work on the work of Sir Patrick Geddes, a trans-disciplinary theorist with long reaching influence including the origins of ecological design, GIS software, bioregional design, and "Think Global, Act Local".
Daniel Christian Wahl • Design and Planning for People in Place: Sir Patrick Geddes (1854–1932) and the Emergence of…
Death and Life became the most famous book on urban planning. It is fundamentally about the natural origins and benefits of “the spontaneous order.” Written a third of a century after Euclid normalized centralized planning, Death and Life rejected that precedent, arguing that throughout human history, cities had been built on spontaneity, with... See more
What’s Next for Jane Jacobs' Sidewalk Ballet?
During this formative time, she developed the roots of what one historian has called her “ecosocial” interpretation of the built environment, which considered architecture and the built environment to be an extension and manifestation of human ecology.5 This preference for the social led her to elevate Buckminster Fuller’s ecological utopianism... See more
Aggregate – Black Spaces Matter
Place Based Investment & Infrastructure | Our Place
public interest software.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
The global ‘Eco-City Movement’ and the work of eco-city pioneer Richard Register, who founded ‘Ecocity Builders’ in 1992, have helped to develop the ‘International Ecocity Framework and Standards (IEFS)’.