Comments on: Turning Estates into Villages http://permaculture.org.au/2010/08/10/turning-estates-into-villages/ Permaculture News, Commentary and Worldwide Projects. Tue, 22 May 2012 14:23:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Øyvind Holmstad http://permaculture.org.au/2010/08/10/turning-estates-into-villages/#comment-54510 Øyvind Holmstad Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:18:19 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3680#comment-54510 LIFE AND THE GEOMETRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT: http://zeta.math.utsa.edu/~yxk833/lifeandthegeometry.pdf LIFE AND THE GEOMETRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT: http://zeta.math.utsa.edu/~yxk833/lifeandthegeometry.pdf

]]> By: Øyvind Holmstad http://permaculture.org.au/2010/08/10/turning-estates-into-villages/#comment-51501 Øyvind Holmstad Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:09:08 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3680#comment-51501 GENERATIVE CODES HAVE EVOLVED FROM PATTERN LANGUAGES, BUT ARE MUCH MORE SOPHISTICATED GENERATING SYSTEMS: http://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/gcwelcome.htm GENERATIVE CODES HAVE EVOLVED FROM PATTERN LANGUAGES, BUT ARE MUCH MORE SOPHISTICATED GENERATING SYSTEMS: http://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/gcwelcome.htm

]]> By: Øyvind Holmstad http://permaculture.org.au/2010/08/10/turning-estates-into-villages/#comment-51486 Øyvind Holmstad Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:32:18 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3680#comment-51486 "Housing built around village greens need be no more expensive and no less dense: just better planned and better regulated." This is true, but I should add "better generated": “And the fundamental answer is, that there is a fundamental law about the creation of complexity, which is visible and obvious to everyone – yet this law is, to all intents and purposes, ignored in 99 % of the daily fabrication process of society. The law states simply as this: ALL the well-ordered complex systems we know in the world, all those anyway that we review as highly successful, are GENERATED structures, not fabricated structures.” From “The Process of Creating Life” by Christopher Alexander, page 180. “Housing built around village greens need be no more expensive and no less dense: just better planned and better regulated.”

This is true, but I should add “better generated”:

“And the fundamental answer is, that there is a fundamental law about the creation of complexity, which is visible and obvious to everyone – yet this law is, to all intents and purposes, ignored in 99 % of the daily fabrication process of society. The law states simply as this: ALL the well-ordered complex systems we know in the world, all those anyway that we review as highly successful, are GENERATED structures, not fabricated structures.”

From “The Process of Creating Life” by Christopher Alexander, page 180.

]]> By: Bradley http://permaculture.org.au/2010/08/10/turning-estates-into-villages/#comment-51470 Bradley Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:28:07 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3680#comment-51470 This is why houses in cul de sac's are so popular, it may not be green, but the traffic is lowered and the kids as well as parents can play in relative safety. If town planners were to take this into consideration far more we would have a far safer, friendlier, and happier community. This is why houses in cul de sac’s are so popular, it may not be green, but the traffic is lowered and the kids as well as parents can play in relative safety. If town planners were to take this into consideration far more we would have a far safer, friendlier, and happier community.

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