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Guerreiro, Maria Rosália (2012). Patterns In Nature, Emergent Urbanism and the Implicate Order. 1st Sustainability Throught Biomimicry - Discovering a World of Solutions Inspired by Nature. 16-29
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M. R. Guerreiro,  "Patterns In Nature, Emergent Urbanism and the Implicate Order", in 1st Sustainability Throught Biomimicry - Discovering a World of Solutions Inspired by Nature, Dammam, pp. 16-29, 2012
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	author = "Guerreiro, Maria Rosália",
	title = "Patterns In Nature, Emergent Urbanism and the Implicate Order",
	year = "2012",
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TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Patterns In Nature, Emergent Urbanism and the Implicate Order
T2  - 1st Sustainability Throught Biomimicry - Discovering a World of Solutions Inspired by Nature
AU  - Guerreiro, Maria Rosália
PY  - 2012
SP  - 16-29
CY  - Dammam
AB  - This research is about the scientific understanding of the concept of "life" in urban space and its  main  purpose  is  to  explain  the  underlying  order  that  is  present  in  organic  cities.  It  was found  that  this  order  is  emergent  (bottom-up),a  product  of  a  self-organization,  a  fractal geometry that characterizes the geometries of Nature  which is substantially different from the visual  order  (top-down)  we  are  used  to  look  at  our  cities.The  biological  metaphor  in  city planning  has  been  used  since  the  sixteenth  century.  However,  this  analogy  has  been  made mainly because of its shape and appearance rather than by the investigation of their geometric properties and laws of formation. Checking the parallel between the geometries of Nature and the  geometries  of  the  organic  city,  through  the  recognition  of  a  set  of  patterns  and  emergent properties  I  conclude  with  this  work  that  these  forms  and  structures  emerge  for  the  same reason:  the  constraints  of  physical  space  and  the  laws  of  nature  are  the  same everywhere. Thesefundamental  lawswhich  governall  live-systems  phenomena  showthat  in  spite  of apparently  amorphous  growth  of  urban  sprawl,  resilient  patterns  emerge.  Once  we  know  the principles  we  can  use  them  to  improve  our  plans  and  designs.  We  shouldtrust  to  the  self-organizingprinciples of cities rather than impose ideas of what theyshould look like. 

PATTERNS IN NATURE, EMERGENT URBANISM AND THE IMPLICATE ORDER. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235609450_PATTERNS_IN_NATURE_EMERGENT_URBANISM_AND_THE_IMPLICATE_ORDER [accessed Jan 26, 2016].
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