Sample Writing Projects
Michael W. Mehaffy
See also Sample Radio and Video Interviews/Presentations
See also Writing Topics and Influences
MAGAZINES:
Planetizen Journal (web): "The Urban Dimensions of Climate Change," http://www.planetizen.com/node/41801
Traditional Building Magazine: "The Wake-up Call of Climate Change"
http://www.traditional-building.com/Previous-Issues-10/FebruaryForum10.html
Urban Land magazine, Change of Climate (On Europe's efforts to tackle climate change with new urban development)
Urban Land magazine: Redeveloping the Sink Estates (On regeneration of social housing developments in the UK)
Urban Land magazine, Going to Town (On urban redevelopment trends in Europe) (Note: also did photos)
Urban Land magazine: Cuba Libre (On planning of Havana harbor redevelopment and possible impact of liberalization)
Urban Land magazine, Venezuela's New Socialist Cities (On Chavez Government's new exurban projects for the poor)
Urban Land magazine, Romania at the Crossroads (On urban development trends in a major Eastern European country)
(Note: also did photos)
Urban Land magazine, Oslo's Fjord City (Profile of new waterfront development in Noway's capital)
Portland Spaces, 53 Ways to Green Your Home (Sustainable practices at home) P1 P2 P3 P4 P5
Portland Spaces, Carbon Identities (Surprising effects of local lifestyles on climate change)
Building magazine (UK), The Real Avant Garde? (Trends in new building, and cautionary evidence) http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3065473
Building magazine (UK), Dear Bill (Dialogue with prominent UK architect Bill Dunster) http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=31&storycode=3055473
Regeneration and Renewal magazine (UK), Attack of the Clones? (On new housing projects in the UK, and local fears they are erasing local identity) http://www.regen.net/news/login/456613/
Daylight & Architecture magazine, (DE), Patterns of City Life (On recent work of Christopher Alexander on pattern languages) http://da.velux.com/veluxcommon/resources/cache/site/da.velux.com/Non-Image/PDF/DA08_complete.pdf
BOOK CHAPTERS:
(Not available online - copies available on request)
Building Sustainable Communities: The Ecological and Economic Toolkit
In The Resilient Community Guidebook
Steven Coyle, editor
John Wiley and Sons, New York (In Press)
In the Quest for Sustainability, is Modernism Modern Enough?
In Modernity, Modernism and the Other Modern
Michael Lykoudis, Editor
W.W. Norton, New York (In Press)
Pastiche Versus Revival
In The Venice Charter Revisited
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle (UK), November 2008
New Science, New Architecture… New Urbanism?
In New Urbanism & Beyond: Contemporary and Future Trends in Urban Design
Rizzoli, New York, March 2008
Growing Sustainable Suburbs: An Incremental Strategy for Reconstructing Sprawl
With Nikos Salingaros and Lucien Steil
In New Urbanism & Beyond: Contemporary and Future Trends in Urban Design
Rizzoli, New York, March 2008
Generative Codes: The Path to Welcoming, Beautiful and Sustainable Neighborhoods
With Christopher Alexander, Maggie Moore Alexander, Brian Hanson and Randy Schmidt.
In New Urbanism & Beyond: Contemporary and Future Trends in Urban Design.
Rizzoli, New York, March 2008
From Pattern Languages to Generative Codes: A Report on the Work of Christopher Alexander and Associates
In New Architecture and Urbanism: Development of Indian Traditions
INTBAU-INDIA, New Delhi, 2008
Architectural Education in an “Age of Sustainability”
In Proceedings of The Oxford Conference: A Re-Evaluation of Education in Architecture
WIT Press (59-62), July 2008
Codes and the Architecture of Life
In Crossover: Architecture, Urbanism, Technology
010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2006
Geometrical Fundamentalism
(With Nikos Salingaros)
In A Theory of Architecture
Umbau-Verlag, Sollingen (DE), 2006
Making TODs Work: Lessons From Orenco Station
In Planetizen’s Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning
Island Press, Washington D.C., 2006
Education and Practice for a New Modernity
In The Teaching of Architecture and Urbanism in the Age of Globalisation
Caleidoscopio, Casal de Cambra, Portugal, 2006
The Architecture of the New Modernity
In Aesthetics and Architectural Composition
Literature Verlag, Dresden, 2005
The Architecture of the New Modernity
Proceedings of the Dresden International Symposium of Architecture
Literature Verlag (DE), 2005
Deconstructing the Decons
(With Nikos Salingaros)
In Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction
Umbau-Verlag, Sollingen (DE), 2005
The Viseu Declaration on Architectural Education in the 21st Century (Principal drafter)
In Windsor Forum on Design Education: Toward an Ideal Curriculum to Reform Architectural Education
New Urban Press, Miami, 2004
PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
(Generally not available online - copies available on request)
Urban Nuclei and the Geometry of Streets: The “Emergent Nuclei” Model
Paper co-authored with S. Porta, Y Rofe and N Salingaros
Urban Design International (in press)
The Factors of Urban Morphology in Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Research Overview
Paper co-authored with D Urge-Vorsatz (IPCC) and S Cowan (Sustasis Foundation)
Accepted and presented at the International Alliance of Research Universities
Scientific Conference on Climate Change, Copenhagen DK, March 2009
IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci. 6 202001
Opportunities and dangers in the current urban research agenda
Outline of current challenges for research in sustainable urbanism
Journal of Urbanism (2-1, 5-6), March 2009
Generative Methods in Urban Design: A Progress Assessment
Journal of Urbanism (1-1, 59-79), March 2008
On the Nature of Order: An Interview with Christopher Alexander
Urban Design International (12, 51-57), 2007
Notes on the Genesis of Wholes: Christopher Alexander and his Continuing Influence
Urban Design International (12, 41-49), 2007
Social Housing: A Methodology to Utilize Processes of Self-Organization
Paper co-authored with D Brain, A Duany, E Philibert, N Salingaros
Proceedings of the Ibero-American Congress on Social Housing, 2006