tissue pattern precedent
Cities simultaneously emerged from the collapse and reorganization of the founding system of civilization, in five geographically separated and ecologically stressed regions across the world. The evolutionary development of city forms and their extended metabolic systems was strongly coupled to multiple changes of the climate and ecological system within which they were situated, and to the rise in the flow of energy from intense cultivation, increased social complexity and to the evolution of information systems. The proliferation of cities, systems of cities and their extended metabolic systems across the world was characterized by episodic and irregular expansions and incorporations, collapse and subsequent reorganization in more complex forms with greater flows of energy, information and material. The extensive modification of ecological systems at a variety of spatial and temporal scales is still evident in the arid and denuded landscapes that persist today. - Michael Weinstock
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