Comments on: City Builder http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/06/city-builder/ The Official Weblog of The Long Now Foundation and Friends Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: [ meme - hazard ] » Blog Archive » Building virtual worlds from the inside - ‘World Builder’ http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/06/city-builder/comment-page-1/#comment-6536 [ meme - hazard ] » Blog Archive » Building virtual worlds from the inside - ‘World Builder’ Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:50:53 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/06/city-builder/#comment-6536 [...] found via Long Now [...] [...] found via Long Now [...]

]]> By: Bal’s Adventures in the Net: Journal » Blog Archive » What if… http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/06/city-builder/comment-page-1/#comment-6469 Bal’s Adventures in the Net: Journal » Blog Archive » What if… Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:52:21 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/06/city-builder/#comment-6469 [...] You can find additional videos on this theme on the Long Now Blog. [...] [...] You can find additional videos on this theme on the Long Now Blog. [...]

]]> By: Enoch Root http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/06/city-builder/comment-page-1/#comment-6462 Enoch Root Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:28:50 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/06/city-builder/#comment-6462 Come visit Second Life, where that first vid is kind of like my daily routine. 'World Builder' shows the craft and turns the intention into one of interpersonal healing. Can't beat that. The Hook vid is for selling cars. Frown. Come visit Second Life, where that first vid is kind of like my daily routine.

‘World Builder’ shows the craft and turns the intention into one of interpersonal healing. Can’t beat that. The Hook vid is for selling cars. Frown.

]]> By: Noah http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/06/city-builder/comment-page-1/#comment-6461 Noah Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:17:40 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/06/city-builder/#comment-6461 There are actually a few different generative urbanism software packages which have hit the market recently, the best of which is CityEngine from Procedural,Inc. (no affiliation). I'm a practicing urban designer and have to say that I'm glad to see some of the wisdom of evolutionary design finally coming to mainstream practices. It is scary to think of this stuff being used at a large scale on real cities, but I can promise you from personal experience that the right generative rules would be 100x better than the crap most big architecture firms churn out for new cities all over Asia and the Gulf. At least there would be a trackable logic to the plans it produced, as opposed to the subjectivist whims of style so often masquerading as "design thinking" in most star architecture firms. Trust me, it's grim in here what passes for intelligence. Hopefully the credit crunch will derail all large scale "city in a day" projects, however, and we can all go back to city building the way it's meant to be done, slowly and incrementally over time, with constant reference to what is already there and intelligent synthesis of new possibilities. There are actually a few different generative urbanism software packages which have hit the market recently, the best of which is CityEngine from Procedural,Inc. (no affiliation). I’m a practicing urban designer and have to say that I’m glad to see some of the wisdom of evolutionary design finally coming to mainstream practices.

It is scary to think of this stuff being used at a large scale on real cities, but I can promise you from personal experience that the right generative rules would be 100x better than the crap most big architecture firms churn out for new cities all over Asia and the Gulf. At least there would be a trackable logic to the plans it produced, as opposed to the subjectivist whims of style so often masquerading as “design thinking” in most star architecture firms. Trust me, it’s grim in here what passes for intelligence.

Hopefully the credit crunch will derail all large scale “city in a day” projects, however, and we can all go back to city building the way it’s meant to be done, slowly and incrementally over time, with constant reference to what is already there and intelligent synthesis of new possibilities.

]]> By: Svein-Magnus Sørensen http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/06/city-builder/comment-page-1/#comment-6454 Svein-Magnus Sørensen Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:53:55 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/06/city-builder/#comment-6454 Fantastic! These are quite simply amazing, especially the World Builder. Thank you so much for this moment of truly enjoyable digital art! Fantastic! These are quite simply amazing, especially the World Builder. Thank you so much for this moment of truly enjoyable digital art!

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