Growth Rules: Quasi-Historical Development of Urban Districts

Our research asks how laws could guide the development of an urban district, without reference to a pre-established street plan, zoning plan, or property subdivision. Could urban development be regulated as a self-organizing system, where a succession of local events, constrained by simple rules, resolves the large-scale structure? We believe that an incremental planning process could help give new districts a sense of particularity, space and order- a sense of place sui generis, which seems missing from so much postwar urban development.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Intl.1995.48

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