PATTERNS OF LIFE: How Traditional Urban Patterns Are a More Powerful (and More Necessary) Antidote than We Might Think to the Current "Age of Disruption" https://www.imcl.online/post/patterns-of-life-how-traditional-urban-patterns-are-a-more-powerful-and-more-necessary-antidote-t-1?fbclid=IwY2xjawRSCrxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFTZTI5OHltRjJyVUpjelRUc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHuLZJETf0M8jEsQK9Ig5zdQHT_5X_SRdyDG7S6i1jndiSpziSDalUBELPFgw_aem_mEd_WXOvwQegBxBxLv-trA

PATTERNS OF LIFE: How Traditional Urban Patterns Are a More Powerful (and More Necessary) Antidote than We Might Think for the Current "Age of Disruption"
A discussion post for the upcoming 63rd International Making Cities Livable conference, on "Regenerative Architecture and Urbanism: Recovery and Resilience After an Age of Disruption"ABOVE: "Traditional" and "modern" environments in Jelgava and Riga, Latvia, exhibit very different forms of geometric order -- which, as new research is revealing, have profoundly different consequences for human well-being. Images: City of Jelgava, Wikimedia Commons.JELGAVA, LATVIA - One of the greatest paradoxes o


