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Edited by Nikos Salingaros.

With

 the	
 collaboration	
 of	
 Antonio	
 Caperna,	
 Michel	
 Bauwens,	
 David	
 Brain,	
 Andrés

M.

 Duany,	
 Michael	
 W.	
 Mehaffy,	
 Geeta	
 Mehta,	
 Federico	
 Mena-‐Quintero,	
 Ernesto

Philibert-‐Petit,

 Agatino	
 Rizzo,	
 Stefano	
 Serafini	
 &	
 Emanuele	
 Strano.

To be published in 2011 by Umbau Verlag, Germany. In cooperation with the P2P Foundation.

License: Creative

 Commons	
 –	
 Attribution	
 –	
 Share	
 Alike,	
 Nikos	
 A.	
 Salingaros,	
 2010.

Introduction

“At

 the	
 Peer	
 to	
 Peer	
 Foundation,	
 we	
 have	
 often	
 argued	
 that	
 the	
 ability	
 to	
 aggregate

voluntary

  contributions	
  around	
  common	
  projects	
  would	
  be	
  at	
  the	
  core	
  of	
  value

creation,

  creating	
  commons	
  of	
  shared	
  knowledge,	
  code,	
  and	
  design.	
  This	
  process	
  will

benefit

  users	
  and	
  producers,	
  amateurs	
  and	
  experts,	
  public	
  authorities	
  and

entrepreneurs,

 in	
 a	
 non-exclusionary	
 embrace,	
 and	
 in	
 every	
 domain	
 of	
 social	
 life.	
 The

school

  of	
  thought	
  and	
  practice	
  around	
  bio-urbanism,	
  inspired	
  by	
  the	
  work	
  of

Christopher

 Alexander	
 and	
 Nikos	
 Salingaros,	
 is	
 an	
 example	
 of	
 a	
 very	
 important	
 phase

of

  society	
  going	
  through	
  such	
  a	
  transformation,	
  moving	
  away	
  from	
  vertical	
  and

authoritarian

 starchitects	
 who	
 impose	
 biopathic	
 structures	
 that	
 are	
 inimical	
 to	
 social

life,

  to	
  a	
  new	
  breed	
  of	
  urbanist	
  facilitators.	
  These	
  new	
  urban	
  practitioners	
  combine

skills

 aimed	
 at	
 bringing	
 in	
 the	
 participation	
 of	
 all	
 stakeholders,	
 and	
 also	
 bring	
 to	
 the

table

  a	
  set	
  of	
  scientifically	
  validated	
  choices,	
  i.e.	
  biophilic	
  patterns	
  that	
  make	
  for	
  a

livable

  environment.	
  This	
  book	
  is	
  one	
  of	
  the	
  first	
  records	
  of	
  such	
  peer	
  to	
  peer

architecture

 and	
 urbanism,	
 and	
 exemplifies	
 the	
 start	
 of	
 a	
 new	
 era	
 for	
 the	
 history	
 of	
 the

human

 habitat.”

—	
 Michel	
 Bauwens.