Urban Simulations With Fractal Spectrum
Fractal Wave. By Myriam Mahiques The topic of “time” has been very difficult to analyze in the visual arts, for the lack of representational means to describe the dynamics of […]
Tag Archives: population collapse
Slums Clearances by Fire
Dharavi slum fire http://alchemistpoonam.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/dharavi_slum_fire.jpg Every year, mostly in summer, thousands of nice comfortable houses, complete neighborhoods, are burnt to the ground in California. Supposedly, all homeowners would have an insurance, […]
Settlements Extinction and Identity: the case of Greenland Norse
Greenland lake. http://airportshotelsandparking.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/greenland-lake.jpg Hvalsey church ruins. By Lars Reimer As I said in my post about Cellular Automata, my concern is the data input, because the conditions given for life […]
What is Cellular Automata?
Two simulations of growing towns-cities in CA. See both centers as “downtowns”. Each color is a representation of land use. Personal archives. Cellular Automata (CA) was originally designed by Ulam […]
Urban consequences of the 1924 plague in Los Angeles
Los Angeles city dump, 1924. Online archive of California The plague is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis. People usually get […]
Overpopulation in cities: John Calhoun´s experiment with rats
That´s terrible overcrowding in India. apublicdefender.com/…/page/2/ Asian overcrowding. nerdnirvana.org/tag/building/ Overpopulation is a term that refers to conditions by which the population density enlarges to a limit that provokes the environment […]
Selections from Thoughts on Architecture and Urbanism 
