October 15, 2010

Brief History of P2P-Urbanism

A BRIEF HISTORY OF P2P-URBANISM.
By Nikos A. Salingaros & Federico Mena-Quintero. (Version 4.0, October 2010)

P2P (peer-to-peer) Urbanism joins ideas from the open-source software movement together with new thinking by urbanists, into a discipline oriented towards satisfying human needs. P2P-Urbanism is concerned with cooperative and creative efforts to define space for people’s use. This essay explains P2P-Urbanism as the outcome of several historical processes, describes the cooperative participation schemes that P2P-Urbanism creates, and indicates the possible outcomes of applying P2P-Urbanism in different human environments.