RE-POST | Steve Jobs | On the Social Potential of Built Space
RE-POSTING THE MOST POPULAR ARTICLE IN 2013 ON THE OUTLAW URBANIST! THIS ARTICLE EDGED OUT BY ONLY 3% THE “URBAN PATTERNS” ARTICLE ON OLMSTED’S RIVERSIDE SUBURB IN CHICAGO. View of the atrium at the...
View ArticleOn Space | The Synthetic City
On Space | The Synthetic City by Mark David Major, The Outlaw Urbanist contributor The city is not mere reflection but indefinite inflection and precise infection, where we are the cancer and panacea,...
View ArticleOn Space | The Urban Trinity
On Space | The Urban Trinity by Mark David Major, The Outlaw Urbanist contributor The spatial averts everything from a congruent state of existence, a simultaneous state of being, in a single place....
View ArticleThe City’s Essential DNA | The Outlaw Urbanist
Form and process in the urban pattern: (left to right) grid expansion, block size manipulation, deformation, street extension, and discrete separation. The City’s Essential DNA by Mark David Major,...
View ArticleOn Space |…and Time | Mark David Major
“The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. – Stephen Hawking NOTE This post is not about architecture or urbanism. It is only about space in a tangential,...
View ArticleSeven Deadly Sins for Cities | Part 1
1. Sparsity The city is present only in small amounts over a large area; less than necessary or normal in more compact, sustainable cities; of few and scattered elements; especially: not thickly grown...
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2. Width The distance from one side of something to the other side; a measurement of how wide something is; the horizontal measurement taken at right angles to the length (breadth); largeness of...
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3. Vacancy An empty space or void in the city; specifically a site unoccupied by human activity; first known use of vacancy 1598; the state of being vacant: not continuously filled, used, or lived in...
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4. Imperviousity A contraction of impervious, meaning not allowing something to enter or pass through; not allowing entrance or passage (Latin impervius, from in- + pervius pervious, First Known Use:...
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5. Velocity A quickness or speed of motion, action, or operation; rapidity or swiftness: speed or the rapidity of movement; speed imparted to something; a measure of the rate of motion of a body...
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6. Parsimony More than an extreme or excessive economy or frugality, extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources, the quality of being very unwilling to spend money/being careful with money...
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7. Hyper-Segregation Hyper, prefix, meaning high-strung (very nervous or easily upset), excitable, highly excited or extremely active; over, beyond, above, or exceeding the normal. Segregation, noun,...
View ArticleFROM THE VAULT | Creative Confessions and other writings | Paul Klee
FROM THE VAULT | Creative Confessions and other writings by Paul Klee by Mark David Major, The Outlaw Urbanist contributor Creative Confessions is a series of short essays (vignettes, really) by Modern...
View ArticleFROM THE VAULT | Paul Klee on Modern Art
FROM THE VAULT | Paul Klee on Modern Art by Mark David Major, The Outlaw Urbanist contributor Paul Klee on Modern Art (with Introduction by Herbert Read) is the text of a lecture delivered in 1924 at...
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