Someone from ETH Zurich Future Cities Lab showed me a fascinating book by Serge Salat called Cities and Forms (Hermann Editions, Paris, 2011). Haven’t managed to get it (ugh! French Publishers!) but downloaded his paper “Systemic Resilience of Complex Urban Systems: On Trees and Leaves” where he argues that as cities have evolved, they have become less resilient looking more like trees than leaves a. IDon’t agree with this but very suggestive. A longer post soon
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