Dear Stefano, Nikos:<br><br>I'm interested in a separate update on the Chiesa project, if you have anything available,<br><br>Michel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Stefano Serafini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefanonikolaevic@gmail.com">stefanonikolaevic@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><span lang="ru"><span title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">Привет</span> <span title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">Глеб!<br>
<br>I like your interest in Kondratiev, and would like to share some ideas. I'm taking care of the research of the International Society of Biourbanism ( <a href="http://www.biourbanism.org" target="_blank">www.biourbanism.org</a> ), and I think 3 actual issues we are working on can fit with your research: 1) Biopolitics; 2) Ecovillages; 3) Politics issues. All are related with P2P.<br>
<br>1) Massimilano Caserta and me are especially interested in biopolitics issues. Massimilano focuses more on the analysis of space as organized by the power (according to the thought of Michel Foucault), while I'm more engaged in the relation between urban form degradation and hyper-real/images/spectacle/interface, seeking for solutions based upon human body (biophilia, neuroergonomy).<br>
<br>2) Massimo Locci operates in Denmark, and is now researching on Eco-villages experience in Northern Europe, collecting informations and models.<br><br>3) You probably know mr. Giulietto Chiesa (</span></span><font size="2">Джульетто Кьеза</font><span lang="ru"><span title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">): he proposed to our Society to develop a human resistance tool, to be used enforcing a political transition to post-carbon and post-collpase cities. Nikos Salingaros is directing this work at the moment.<br>
<br>Hoping you to stay in touch.<br><br>Best regards,<br><font color="#888888"><br>Stefano Serafini<br><br></font></span></span><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/3/18 Gleb Tyurin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glebglobal@gmail.com" target="_blank">glebglobal@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear
friends!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My name is
Gleb Tyurin.I have been registered as a member of that network recently.. I am
very glad to do it. <span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Let me say
few words about myself. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I am from
Russia. Now I live in Moscow.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For many
years I have been working with rural development in the North of Russia, in
Archangelsk region. I worked with development projects in far remote villages,
providing them with education, consulting. <span> </span>I created an NGO called Institute for Social
and Humanistic initiatives. We managed to do many things and achieve certain
success, few dozens of development groups appeared and started to work development
projects. But we also faced certain difficulties. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Now I live
in Moscow. I try to create my own school in St. Petersburg which is going to
deal with issues of innovative development. I also try to promote a program on
local development of<span> </span>one of TV channels.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I am very
interested in creating partnership aimed on building understanding how to develop
small places. <span> </span><br></span></p><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Gleb</span></p></font><div><div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/3/16 Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com" target="_blank">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Via <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/real-cities-real-transformations/2011/03/16" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/real-cities-real-transformations/2011/03/16</a><br><br><p><a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/real-cities-real-transformations/2011/03/16" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Real Cities, Real
Transformations" target="_blank">Real Cities, Real Transformations</a></p>
<img src="" alt="photo of Sam Rose" align="left"><div>Sam Rose</div>
<div>16th March 2011</div>
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<div>This post is a response to “<a href="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/how-seattle-transformed-itself/" target="_blank">How
Seattle Transformed itself</a>” by Edward L. Glaeser. Some highlights:</div>
<blockquote>
<h4>Systems Matter</h4>
<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">First, system-effects
matter. Cities exist in networks of flows that depend on existing
infrastructure. That infrastructure has system-level properties, and it
is these properties, not merely the properties of the cities themselves,
that produce system-wide effects. For example, in <a style="color: rgb(73, 160, 173); text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cronon" target="_blank">“Nature’s Metropolis”</a>
William Cronon explains the systemic effects of railroads and grain
elevators on the development of the American midwest. In fact, the field
of <a style="color: rgb(73, 160, 173); text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_history" target="_blank">“environmental
history”</a> is rife with analyses of how differing contexts have
shaped civilizations.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">In his article, Glaeser
acknowledges that cities exist within broader environments, but then he
lays his argument at the feet of the people within those cities. In
other words, for Glaeser, network effects and systemic properties seem
to be relevant <i>only insofar as they alter the properties of the
parts, not of the system as a whole</i>. Cities change because of their
positions in an ecology of cities, and people change because of their
positions in an ecology of other people, but he fails to adequately
acknowledge that the system itself has properties <i>outside of its
effect on the the properties of its parts</i>.</p>
<h4>Comparing the Parts</h4>
<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Second, Glaeser’s
comparison of Seattle and Detroit with respect to density also falls
short.<br>
Glaeser’s claim about “[d]ense, smart cities like Seattle,” offered at
the expense of Detroit, is hard to square with the fact that <a style="color: rgb(73, 160, 173); text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;" href="http://www.demographia.com/db-2000city50kdens.htm" target="_blank">Year
2000 U.S. Census</a> data ranked Detroit as 84th in municipalities over
50,000 ranked by density, and Seattle 87th. The <a style="color: rgb(73, 160, 173); text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;" href="http://www.census.gov/popest/cities/SUB-EST2009.html" target="_blank">Census
Bureau’s 2010</a> estimates still rank Detroit as the eleventh largest
city in the nation.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">To be sure, much of this
confusion can be laid at the feet of Economics as a discipline, which
has been notoriously remiss in it’s recognition of systemic effects.
Macro-level systems-thinkers from Keynes to Schelling have consistently
pointed out the shortcomings of micro-level analyses. Even
post-Internet, Economics has tended to reject any claims that connective
technologies fundamentally alter the landscape, for ex. Hal Varian’s<a style="color: rgb(73, 160, 173); text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Rules" target="_blank">“Information
Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy”</a>.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"> </span></p>
<h4>What’s Missing?</h4>
<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">After <a style="color: rgb(73, 160, 173); text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;" href="http://shareable.net/blog/detroit-community-resilience-and-the-american-dream" target="_blank">a
recent visit to Detroit</a>, Millicent Johnson, community engagement
manager at Shareable.net and a native of New York City, noted:</p>
<blockquote>
<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">It may be more
pronounced here, but if we stay on the current track of trying to house
ourselves in single family homes, consuming without regard for
practicality or sustainability, and looking to a single source for our
well being—in our case straight-up consumer-driven capitalism, there is
no need to look into a crystal ball, the snapshot of our future is
staring us in the face in the stereotypical shots of Detroit.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">But, I believe Detroit
also holds the key to the future of this great nation. We must evolve to
a more sustainable way of living if we are to survive, and I think we
all innately sense it. We know that two-income-dependent housing prices,
while unemployment and underemployment approaches the double digits,
does not add up.</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Harvard Law School
professor, Yochai Benkler, urgues us to recognize the “increased
diversity of ways of organizing production” in the new economy.</p>
<blockquote>
<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">“The point is that the
networked information economy makes it possible for nonmarket and
decentralized models of production to increase their presence alongside
the more traditional models, causing some displacement, but increasing
the diversity of ways of organizing production rather than replacing one
with the other. This diversity of ways of organizing production and
consumption, in turn, opens a range of new opportunities for pursuing
core political values of liberal societies — democracy, individual
freedom, and social justice.”</p>
<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">from <a style="color: rgb(73, 160, 173); text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;" href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Essays#Yochai_Benkler_on_Peer_Production" target="_blank">Freedom
in the Commons</a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">From this perspective,
when Glaeser asks: “Can Detroit find the road forward?” the real
response is “Detroit is<i>already</i> on the road forward.” By freeing
itself from the constraints of legacy infrastructure, Detroit gains the
flexibility to “harness complexity” to explore and adapt to a new era
(see Axelrod and Cohen, <a style="color: rgb(73, 160, 173); text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Harnessing-Complexity-Organizational-Implications-Scientific/dp/0684867176" target="_blank">“Harnessing
Complexity”</a>).</p>
<blockquote>
<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">“I really think it’s a
blessing that we’ve been deconstructed. We just have to build it right
this time. If we do, we can show the world how to live in a sustainable
way, with a city that can move quickly to adapt to whatever changes
comes its way” said Mike. (Mike Han – Community Development Director of “<a style="color: rgb(73, 160, 173); text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;" href="http://www.iamyoungdetroit.com/" target="_blank"></span></span>I AM <span>YOUNG
<span>DETROIT</a>.”</p>
<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">from <a style="color: rgb(73, 160, 173); text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;" href="http://shareable.net/blog/detroit-community-resilience-and-the-american-dream" target="_blank"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "shareable.net" claiming to be</b></font> Detroit,
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