Fabian Neuhaus Bücher

Die logischen Regeln, die unseren naiven Redeweisen über Eigenschaften zugrunde liegen, scheinen evident und sind für sich alleine betrachtet völlig harmlos - zusammen sind sie jedoch widersprüchlich. Das entstehende Paradox, das Russell-Paradox, löste die sogenannte Grundlagenkrise der Mathematik zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts aus. Der klassische Weg, mit dem Russell-Paradox umzugehen, ist eine Vermeidungsstrategie: Die logische Analysesprache wird so beschränkt, dass das Russell-Paradox nicht formulierbar ist. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein anderer Weg aufgezeigt, wie man das Russell-Paradox und das verwandte Grelling-Paradox lösen kann. Dazu werden die relevanten linguistischen Daten anhand von Beispielen analysiert und ein angemessenes formales System aufgebaut, die Naive Prädikatenlogik.

Cycles in Urban Environment This book explores the appearance and impact of cycles in urban surroundings and, in a second stage, their potential for an urban proposition. Cycles appear in any part of life. Examples can be found in time, economics, environment or social activities. Cycles appear through a wide range of scales and often without referring to them. Investigating these patterns in a spatio-social context makes sense regarding urban planning and urban sustainability as well as from a theoretical point of view in the sense of a spatial-temporal concept. The first part, is designed as an observational study in an existing urban environemnt, where as the second part, is an application of some of the findings of part one in a proposal for a floating city in the Thames Estuary. Both elements are approached as one process and influence one another. Four included essays with a specific focus on a related topics help to set a wider context and guide the debate.

This book focuses on the creation of space as an activity. The argument draws not only on aspects of movement in time, but also on a cultural and specifically social context influencing the creation of the spatial habitus. The book reconsiders existing theories of time and space in the field of urban planning and develops an updated account of spatial activity, experience and space-making. Recent developments in spatial practice, specifically related to new technologies, make this an important and timely task. Integrating spatial-temporal dynamics into the way we think about cities aids the implementation of sustainable forms of urban planning. The study is composed of two different case studies. One case is based on fieldwork tracking individual movement using GPS, the other case utilises data mined from Twitter. One of the key elements in the conclusion to this book is the definition of temporality as a status rather than a transition. It is argued that through repetitive practices as habitus, time has presence and agency in our everyday lives. This book is based on the work undertaken for a PhD at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis and was and accepted as thesis by University College London in 2013.