Rube Goldberg is Alive and Well in Architecture: What happened to elegant engineering?

Using the analogy of Rube Goldberg's complicated machines and the example of Chinese cities, I discuss the missteps taken in the pursuit of sustainable modernist architecture, and what we can learn from our ancestors.

Classic Planning Holism is a Basis for Megacity Strategy

Classic Planning is not only relevant in creating beauty and long-term urban value. Its core principles offer a strategy for a hitherto unapproachable task: military control of a megacity.  This blog  of mine was published on January 3, 2019 by the Mad Scientist Initiative at the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), a marketplace of ideas …

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