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Pedestrian/Vehicular Movement

By Peter Brigham posted on Tue, 2009-07-21 14:43 , 165 reads, 2 comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJfKNSsHeNI

So much of what we design and plan is about movement - about how and where people will go - yet we rarely use animation and movement to explain our designs or analysis. Most animation, as 3D instructor Ted Boardman says : "looks like you strapped a camera to a shopping cart and sent it flying through a design". I think this piece uses live video, simple text to make points, and computer modeling and animation to show a solution.

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Understanding Public Space through Scale Comparisons

By Steven Wilson posted on Thu, 2009-07-02 09:17 , 1338 reads, 0 comments

Understanding the precise scale and proportion of the places we are familiar with as well as the iconic places that are widely admired, can help to inform and validate our design proposals.read more

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