Urban Design

A Sasaki GreenBuild Presentation: "Regenerative Landscapes in China: Social, Cultural, and Ecological Stewardship in the World's Fastest Urbanizing Society"

posted on Wed, 2009-11-04 08:04 , 800 reads, 0 comments

"Fitting In" - a Sasaki discussion on contextualism

posted on Fri, 2009-10-09 16:43 , 3341 reads, 0 comments

This in-house Sasaki discussion/debate looked at contextualism from perspective of the individual architectural intervention (the tree), and the perspective of the district and the city (the forest). Brie Hensold and Caitlyn Clauson led the first discussion on the forces shaping form and context including program, economics, taste and memory.read more

Understanding Public Space through Scale Comparisons

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

Digital Urban

posted on Fri, 2009-06-26 11:36 , 168 reads, 0 comments

This is an excellent blog if you want to follow digital technologies as they relate to urban planning. Topics covered include mapping, 3D modelling, architectural visualization etc.

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Understanding Public Space through Scale Comparisons

Digital Urban

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