Salingaros, A Theory of Architecture BOOK REVIEW A THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE, by Nikos A. Salingaros, Umbau-Verlag, Solingen, Germany, 280. Salingaros, A Theory of Architecture BOOK REVIEW A THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE, by Nikos A. Salingaros, Umbau-Verlag, Solingen, Germany, 280.

PART III: CONTRIBUTED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (listed alphabetically by book title) *** (Book Chapter), edited by Stephen R. Kellert, Judith Heerwagen, and Martin Mador, John Wiley, New York (2008). Chapter 5, 'Neuroscience, the Natural Environment, and Building Design' (co-authored with Kenneth G. Masden), pages 59-83.

Part of our perceptive system looks for information, whereas another part looks for meaning, thus giving rise to cultural, philosophical, and ideological constructs. Architects have come to operate in this second domain almost exclusively, which was not so in the past. Biophilia is helping to shape a new adaptive and sustainable design movement. Through Biophilic design, a new effort is made to reconnect human beings to the buildings and places they inhabit. *2008 American Publishers Award*. 'I think [Biophilic Design] is one of the most important design books ever written, not just in the decade.'

-- Cheryl Charles. An early draft of this chapter is available. *** (Book Chapter), J. Portugali, H. Tan, Editors, Springer, Berlin (2012). Chapter 13, 'Urbanism as Computation', pages 247-270.

Counter Strike 1.6 Wcg. Simple geometrical criteria are introduced for judging whether urban fabric is adaptive or not. These show that horizontal sprawl is computationally equivalent to skyscrapers, and that both of these typologies are non-adaptive. Adaptive urban typologies are precisely those found in traditional urbanism. Furthermore, the 'design urbanism' interventions of starchitects are revealed to be mathematically random and therefore anti-urban.

An early draft of my chapter is available. *** (Book Chapter), Bin Jiang and Xiaobai Angela Yao, Editors, Springer, New York (2010).

Chapter 17, 'Geospatial Analysis and Living Urban Geometry' (co-authored with Pietro Pagliardini and Sergio Porta), pages 331-353. We use GIS (Geographical Information Systems) technologies beyond their original representational domain, towards predictive and dynamic spatial models. This defines the new discipline of 'urban seeding'. We condemn the high rise tower block as an unsuitable typology, and propose to re-establish human-scale urban fabric that resembles the traditional living city. An early draft of my chapter is available.

*** (Book Chapter), Tigran Haas, Editor, Rizzoli, New York (2008). Chapter 10.2, 'Growing Sustainable Suburbs: An Incremental Strategy for Reconstructing Sprawl' (co-authored with Michael W. Mehaffy and Lucien Steil), pages 262-274. A new way of understanding the growth of urban form leads to practical suggestions for reconstructing a more sustainable suburbia. Combining 'top-down' controls with 'bottom-up' processes offers guidelines for implementing small-scale changes that eventually lead to large-scale improvements.