Diagram types

Here is a list of diagram types, which I found useful for depicting the changes of 1987-2008.
..brainstorming diagram
..cause & effect diagram
..charts & graphs (to illustrate changes of quantity)
..logical network diagram
..timeline diagram
..mindmapping.
Google to see the logic behind each type but as far as I know the first half of diagrams above are also available in Visio (software in Vista) or click here to download SmartDraw.

Network Culture

"Fredric Jameson's classic description of Postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism is now well over twenty years old. Jameson's analysis is crucial for understanding late twentieth century thinking, but in the intervening years, culture has changed radically. .."

source: http://varnelis.net/network_culture

Principles of Intelligent Urbanism

a theory of urban planning composed of a set of ten axioms intended to guide the formulation of city plans and urban designs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_Intelligent_Urbanism

1 Principle one: a balance with nature
2 Principle two: a balance with tradition
3 Principle three: appropriate technology
4 Principle four: conviviality
4.1 A place for the individual
4.2 A place for friendship
4.3 A place for householders
4.4 A place for the neighborhood
4.5 A place for communities

4.6 A place for the city domain
5 Principle five: efficiency
6 Principle six: human scale
7 Principle seven: opportunity matrix
8 Principle eight: regional integration
9 Principle nine: balanced movement
10 Principle ten: institutional integrity

BRAINSTORM, 2nd

Second part of the group-brainstorm.
(Isolde, John, Pu-Ming, Sofia, Steffie, Timea)






See what's on the wall:

BRAINSTORM, 1st

so here is the first draft. i'm sure there is more... ;)

Locating - Defining

France. Region: Ile-de-France. Departments: Seine-et-Marne (77) and Essonne (91).

Melun
is the 'préfecture' of Seine-et-Marne, the largest department of Ile-de-France region and is today a town of 37 thousand inhabitants.


Sénart
is the youngest "ville nouvelle" of France, created in 1973 - basically an administration area of 10 communities, 
of which 8 is in Seine-et-Marne and 2 is in Essonne (Cesson, Combs-La-Ville, Lieusaint, Moissy-Cramayel, Nandy, Réau, Savigny-le-Temple, Vert-Saint-Denis pour la Seine-et-Marne et Saint Pierre du Perray et Tigery pour l'Esonne). Sénart has 108 000 inhabitants today.


Villes Nouvelles
"Delouvrier, mettez-moi de l'ordre dans ce bordel!" 
(Charles de Gaulle)

Villes Nouvelles is a complex agglomeration program, first 
launched by Paul Delouvrier in the 'Greater Paris Master Plan' in 1965. Just a year before creating the "Region de Paris", this 
plan was to define and  somehow coordinate the chaotic growth of Paris, along the axis of Mantes-Melun. The 9 'villes nouvelles' of which 5 is located in Ile-de-France, were to be concentrated points of agglomeration, preventing a continous urban tissue to close up around Paris, ie. it was a plan of  regrouping small towns into principal poles of development and allowing rural areas and forests to remain green. It was also the time of constructing the RER that was to connect the towns in the agglomeration.
In 2001 the program was brought out again and renewed as a financial subsidy program of 4 years, launched by the Prime Minister.