Living Patterns
I have no experience in theory like Urban morphology and as the post from Spacing Toronto and newspaper Toronto Star suggest, a Canadian city called Mississauga is ‘trying to create a more vibrant and pedestrian-friendly downtown’. The above image compares a really small slice of major cities around the world. I like the patterns and they no doubt speak to the heart of the city, but they’re also very misleading too. It’s a mistake to read too much into planning like this. My only living experience within the context of the above cities is New York. Most of Manhattan is fairly navigable once you get the hang of the streets and avenues. Sure it was planned to some degree but it doesn’t speak to the people that actually live there. There’s a certain ‘drive’ for lack of a better cliché that really makes people who they are in New York. I don’t have a ton of friends, but the people that I like to call them that make the city much more interesting once the awe of the buildings slowly fades away. Urban planning can’t make those relationships. I suppose that speaks to things being over designed in general too. Urban density vs urban sprawl also suggest different living patterns too. Both have their issues but I don’t think one can replicate the other with much success.
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(Via DesignNotes by Michael Surtees.)
Table of contents for Geometry
- The T-shirt Issue by Mashallah Design & Linda Kostowski
- Muriel Cooper: The unsung heroine of on-screen style
- Attila Csörgo
- New Stuff exhibition at the Johnson Trading Gallery
- Queen Street Pilot Project, Studio Weave
- Fold School
- Teach your kid about ‘volume’ early.
- Ssstoell By Voortman & Girod.
- Generative model: m.any
- layout_right_sphere
- Living Patterns
- Contraption Structure Bridge
- Buckminster Fuller, geodesic dome design and Digitalism Idealistic resources
- expressive processing: an experiment in blog-based peer review
- Waive by Matthias Pliessnig
- Voronoi and Magnetism
- Building and designing Digitalism’s Idealistic
- Adventures in Stacking
- Applied Geometry
- yes
- 1,000 Hula Hoop Dome
- At the end of the tunnel
- The movement of light through a window…
