Connecting the Fractal City

http://zeta.math.utsa.edu/~yxk833/connecting.html

This essay describes distinct types of cities as characterized by their connective geometry. The pressure to accommodate both the automobile and increased population growth led twentieth-century urbanists to impose anti-fractal geometrical typologies.  The distribution of the sizes of urban components and connections can define fundamentally different types of cities.  In his essay, Nikos A. Salingaros discusses the hierarchy of connections necessary to sustain urban life. Competing networks of connections exist on several scales, each scale being necessary for separate functions. Understanding these interconnections is essential if we wish to incorporate the electronic city into the physical city.  He criticizes the policy of eliminating small-scale connections in favor of large-scale connections -- the city needs both, and in the proper balance.

Urban Gardening and Upcycling

 

The concept is that you water the top plant and it drains through to the plant below that and then to the plant below that.  www.UrbanOrganicGardener.com.

Some great ideas for container gardening!  And he has an entire series to meet all your city dwelling green thumb desires.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TONjtv6uuKI&feature=relmfu

Please Help Support Our Food Banks

http://youtu.be/_hkKndoXJdc

Help Fill the Food Banks just by watching this video and sharing it on Facebook and Twitter. For every YouTube view, before May 11, 2012, Shaw will donate $1 to the food bank drive and Campbell Canada will donate 1 pound of food up to $250,000 and 250,000 pounds of food respectively. Please share and help us fill local food banks. Find out how you can donate at http://togetherisamazing.com/

Published on Apr 12, 2012 by ShawCommunication

 

Brightest Moon of the Year and Meteor Shower Tonight

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/storm_watch_stories3&stormfile=Supermoon_visible_in_night_sky_this_weekend_04_05_2012?ref=ccbox_weather_topstories

Let's hope the rain lets up and the skies are clear tonight so that we call all enjoy a tha spectacle of moon and stars!