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Theory of the urban web

By Salingaros N.

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2017-08-07 07:01:42
Искусство и искусствоведение;Искусство архитектуры

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Article published in the «Journal of Urban Design» — 1998 — 3:1, pp. 53-71. DOI: 10.1080/13574809808724416.Thiis paper identifies fundamental processes behind urban design. Rules are derived from connective principles in complexity theory, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. Any urban setting can be decomposed into human activity nodes and their interconnections. The connections are then treated as a mathematical problem (here in a qualitative manner). Urban design is most successful when it establishes a certain number of connections between activity nodes. Mathematics itself depends uponestablishing relationships between ideas, this ability being a central component of the intelligence of human beings. The creation of the built environment is driven by forces analogous to those that lead us to do mathematics.

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