Generative history: Marcel Poëte and the city as urban organism

Periton, Diana

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“…is result is a step towards explaining the emergence of Lévy flight patterns in urban development. In Section 3, we consider city as an evolving organism [32] and use the stochastic multiplicative processes to explain the power-law patterns in development trajectory step-lengths.…”

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The Lévy Flight of Cities: Analyzing Social‐Economical Trajectories with Auto‐Embedding

Tian

Zhao

Yin

et al. 2022

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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Lévy flights are useful in stochastic measurement, such as biology, human mobility, and financial mathematics, where trajectories contain many short flights and some long flights, and the step-lengths follow a power-law distribution. For cities inhabited by human beings, this paper proposes to use latent factors to study social-economical development trajectories and observes that the trajectories of four Asian cities exhibit Lévy flight characteristics. We collect the social and economical data such as GDP, goods producing industries, population, and general tertiary education, and map these data into social or economical factor through a deep-learning embedding method auto-encoder. We find that the step-lengths of these urban social-economical trajectories can be fitted approximately as a power-law distribution. We use the stochastic multiplicative processes (SMPs) to explain such pattern, wherein the presence of a boundary constraint, the SMP, leads to a power-law distribution. It means that these urban social-economical trajectories follow a Lévy flight pattern, where some years have large changes and many years have little changes.

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confidence: 99%

The Lévy Flight of Cities: Analyzing Social‐Economical Trajectories with Auto‐Embedding

Tian

Zhao

Yin

et al. 2022

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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“…Differences in current layouts between cities were said to inherently indicate also their different histories. On Poëte's view, it is the innate memory of an early settlement imprinted in its urban descendant centuries later that gives flair of a living organism to the city (Periton 2006).…”

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Myths of the North and Origins of City-Form: Some Reflections Across History and Prehistory

Akkerman

2015

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism

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Abstract. Early environmental myths of the body and the sky have been instrumental in the emergence of prehistoric urban environments, and have continued to play an important role in urban design through history to this time. The notions of the body, as the absolutely immediate, and the sky, as the unreachably distant are shown here as precursors to the core proposition of mindenvironment transactions, introduced by Walter Benjamin a century ago. Late prehistory and early antiquity manifest the idea of epochal and ongoing progression in mind-city interaction, specifically, as a gender-based configuration of edifice versus space, or volume versus void, in the built environment. The North Star, as a celestial feature representing permanency and solidity, was critical in the formation of masculine myths of the environment upon which the very notion of a designed edifice had been founded, and from which the early city had emerged. The feminine counterpart of the edifice is urban void, often the garden, the street or the city square. Whereas in Neolithic communities the open ritual space seems to have been the most important design element, cityform since antiquity has habitually accentuated the masculinity of edifices over designed voids. More feminine attituted drawing on prehistoric acumen can help refocusing the emphasis on urban volume, onto dynamic urban design of open public spaces for human movement in the city.

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