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Emergence and the Forms of Cities
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Michael Weinstock's significant new book The Architecture of Emergence: The Evolution of Form in Nature and Civilisation calls into question the received notion of culture. Rather than perceiving civilisation as intrinsically human or humanist, standing outside and beyond nature, Weinstock positions human development alongside ecological development: the history of cultural evolution and the production of cities are set in the context of processes and forms of the natural world. In this extract from Chapter 7, Weinstock charts how the proliferation of cities and systems of cities and their extended metabolic systems across the world were characterised by episodic and irregular expansions, consolidation, collapse and subsequent reorganisation. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Emergence and the Forms of Cities
10.1002/ad.1088.abs
Michael Weinstock's significant new book The Architecture of Emergence: The Evolution of Form in Nature and Civilisation calls into question the received notion of culture. Rather than perceiving civilisation as intrinsically human or humanist, standing outside and beyond nature, Weinstock positions human development alongside ecological development: the history of cultural evolution and the production of cities are set in the context of processes and forms of the natural world. In this extract from Chapter 7, Weinstock charts how the proliferation of cities and systems of cities and their extended metabolic systems across the world were characterised by episodic and irregular expansions, consolidation, collapse and subsequent reorganisation. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Emergence and the Forms of Cities
Weinstock, Michael (author)
Architectural Design ; 80 ; 118-121
2010-05-01
4 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
agricultural field systems , Peru and Greece , A regime of natural selection , Mongol tribes , the Levant , ‘long houses’ , River valleys , emergence of cities , East Africa , maritime nomadic systems , systems of metropolises , Convergent evolution , development of information systems , recurrent episodes of climatic change , critical threshold of stability , nucleation' , the courtyard , ‘pit houses’ , system collapse. , the use of fire , development of river craft , Nile Valley , the Inca , the Indus Valley , ‘colony’ cities
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