Space Syntax for Dummies | Part 3 | Results
Space syntax model of Greater London within the M25 (Source: Space Syntax Limited and University College London). Space Syntax for Dummies, Part 3 RESULTS by Mark David Major, The Outlaw Urbanist...
View ArticleRE-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 ArticleMy ‘Secret’ Life as an Anonymous Source | Mark David Major
My ‘Secret’ Life as an Anonymous Source by Mark David Major, The Outlaw Urbanist contributor Sorry, this post is quirky and not nearly as salacious as the title might otherwise suggest. However, enough...
View ArticleSpace Syntax for Dummies | Part 2 | Basics
Basic representations of space syntax: (a) axial line; (b) convex space; (c) visual field or an “isovist” (after Benedikt, 1979); or used in tandem (d) axial lines passing through convex spaces; and...
View Article10 Blogs We’re Reading… well, keeping an eye on
10 Blogs We’re Reading… well, keeping an eye on… by Mark David Major, The Outlaw Urbanist contributor We say ‘reading’ but really it is ‘periodically checking in on’ because there is way too much...
View ArticleThe Outlaw Urbanist at SSS10 |13-17 July 2015 | London
UPDATE: Dr. Mark David Major is scheduled to speak at SSS10 on Tuesday, July 14th at 12 Noon during the “Urban Morphology” session in the Leolin Price Lecture Theatre. Dr. Mark David Major, AICP,...
View ArticleNOW AVAILABLE | The Hidden Corruption of Regular Grids
The Hidden Corruption of Regular Grids discusses the remarkable progress space syntax has made in research and practice around the world over the last 40 years. However, this is not the case in the...
View ArticleNOW AVAILABLE | Cloak and Dagger Theory in Peter Eisenman Houses
Cloak and Dagger Theory in Peter Eisenman Houses covers the apparent ‘rules’ of geometrical composition underlying the design of plan in early houses by architect Peter Eisenman. The effect of these...
View ArticleFREE COURSE | Following the Crowd | Movement, Space Use, Risk Management
Following the Crowd | Movement, Space Use, Risk Management examines movement, congregation and space use in crowd phenomenon based on two studies in London during the late 1990s. The first was New...
View ArticleNOW AVAILABLE | A Failure of Modernism: ‘Excavating’ Pruitt-Igoe
A Failure of Modernism: ‘Excavating’ Pruitt-Igoe investigates the Pruitt-Igoe Public Housing Complex in St. Louis, Missouri USA. A large literature implicates several factors in Pruitt-Igoe’s decline,...
View ArticlePAPER | A Failure of Modernism: ‘Excavating’ Pruitt-Igoe
“The present contribution is a nice and proper scientific excursion through the fits and misfits of an emblematic “failure” of modern urbanism – Pruitt-Igoe, overcoming superficial critiques and less...
View ArticlePRE-ORDER NOW | The Syntax of City Space
The Syntax of City Space: American Urban Grids by Mark David Major with Foreword by Ruth Conroy Dalton (co-editor of Take One Building) is now available for pre-order from Routledge, Amazon, and other...
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