Toward an Urban Design Manifesto

Toward an Urban Design Manifesto

It is about six years since Donald Appleyard and I completed "Toward a New Urban Design Manifesto."In large measure it was student-generated, growing out of afirst-time course that Donald and I gave, "Theories of Urban Form." The course examined the physical forms of urban development associated with particular periods, or with design movements, or with ideas about urban form-ideas such as the ...

"Toward an Urban Design Manifesto" Revisited

Toward an Urban Design Manifesto”, co-authored by Donald Appleyard and Allan Jacobs in the early 1980s, was highly influential in how we understand urbanism in the XXI century. Like other seminal documents, it represented the paradigm shift from modernism to contemporary planning and urban design. Professor Ivor Samuels, an international expert on urban morphology and urban design who often con...

Toward an Airpower Manifesto for the Twenty-first Century

TO LEAD IS to choose. Choosing commits one’s group to courses of ac ­ tion and to consequences. In 1995 the leaders of the United States Air Force asserted that long-range planning in the Air Force was “broken” and that they would fix it. Doing so requires vision, asense of the evolving environment, and aprocess for link­ ing visions to strategies andtasks. Bureaucracy without vision mistakes a...

An AI Planning Perspective on Abstraction in ACT-R Modeling: Toward an HLBR Language Manifesto

Researchers have again become interested in the translation of abstract specifications into the knowledge structures of executable cognitive models. Our work has adopted the Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL), as an abstraction language for the automated generation of cognitive models, in a process we call search-based modeling. Our PDDL-based compiler, though incomplete, is currently b...

Notes toward an epidemiology of urban suicide.