Sustainable urban design or planning is not a LEGO-like assembly of prefabricated
elements, but an embryo-like growth with persistent differentiation and adaptation towards a …

Cities are under increased pressure to be resilient and resistant to the effects of climate
change and rapid urbanisation. However, this idea has still not been fully integrated in to …

Discovered by Christopher Alexander, living structure is a physical phenomenon, through
which the quality of the built environment or artifacts can be judged objectively. It has two …

We present evidence that New Urbanism, defined as a set of normative urban characteristics
codified in the 1996 Charter of the New Urbanism, reached a seminal moment—in mission if …

Radical collective behavior change is required to develop sustainable forms of urban life.
This demands redesign of everyday environments. However, the ways in which our material …

Human actions and interactions are shaped in part by our direct environment. The studies of
Christopher Alexander show that objects and structures can inhibit natural properties and …

The disputed endorsement of inherited visceral and universal aesthetic preferences justifies
the scientific validity of Alexander's living structure. Apart from implying a resource-efficient …

The Earth's surface or any territory is a coherent whole or subwhole, in which the notion of
“far more small things than large ones” recurs at different levels of scale ranging from the …

At this historical moment, the urban planning and design professions are confronted with the
twin challenges of unprecedented rapid urbanization on the one hand, and declining post …

Abstract As urban critic Jane Jacobs conceived, a city is essentially the problem of
organized complexity. What underlies the complexity refers to a structural factor, called living …