The Tinkerer's Accomplice : How Design Emerges From Life Itself

Autor: J. Scott Turner

Most people, when they contemplate the living world, conclude that it is a designed place. So it is jarring when biologists come along and say this is all wrong. What most people see as design, they say--purposeful, directed, even intelligent--is onl

From thermodynamics to creativity: McHarg’s ecological planning theory and its implications for resilience planning and adaptive design

Autor: M. Margaret Bryant, J. Scott Turner

Publikováno v: Socio-Ecological Practice Research. 1:325-337

American landscape architect Ian L. McHarg developed an ecological planning theory and method for analyzing biophysical and sociocultural landscape characteristics and for evaluating these to determine suitable land uses. McHarg’s classic 1969 text

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Antimalarial Drugs as COVID-19 Therapy

Autor: J. Scott Turner

Publikováno v: Inference: International Review of Science. 5

Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are two antimalarial drugs to which the FDA recently gave emergency approval for treating COVID-19 infections. Scott Turner provides a history of these drugs’ uses, and explains how they work against the very diff

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Biotic analogies for self-organising cities

Autor: Claire L. Narraway, Katrina A. Lythgoe, Stephen Marshall, Oliver S. P. Davis, J. Scott Turner, Sally Lowell

Publikováno v: Narraway, C, Davis, O, Lowell, S, Lythgoe, K A, Turner, S J & Marshall, S 2019, ' Biotic analogies for self-organising cities ', Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science . https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808319882730

Nature has inspired generations of urban designers and planners in pursuit of harmonious and functional built environments. Research regarding self-organisation has encouraged urbanists to consider the role of bottom-up approaches in generating urban

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Semiotics of a Superorganism

Autor: J. Scott Turner

Publikováno v: Biosemiotics. 9:85-102

Darwinian evolution, as it was first conceived, has two dimensions: adaptation, that is, selection based upon “apt function”, defined as the “good fit” between an organism’s metabolic and biological demands and the environment in which it i

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