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Ken Goulding's picture

SmartPlan Intro

By Ken Goulding posted on Tue, 2009-06-30 12:22 , 1523 reads, 0 comments

Building Information Systems have transformed the way architects develop options, make decisions and share information with clients, developers and contractors. This has been made possible by software that links many key decisions to dynamic variables that can be reconsidered or tweaked at any point in the design and documentation process. Sasaki Associates has developed an urban planning tool with a similar objective: as planning and design options are developed, keep variables flexible and avoid lock-in to create a change-friendly, dynamic design environment.

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Prioritizer

By Ken Goulding posted on Tue, 2010-10-05 17:00 , 595 reads, 0 comments

The prioritizer lets you rank projects by how well they contribute to a list of goals. Each project is assigned a score for each goal and goals can be weighted by importance.

 

Projects can be selected from the ranked list and then placed on a timeline. The timeline automatically tracks available funds and project sequencing requirements and shows flags when it detects a problem.

 

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Prioritizer2_controller.swf

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SmartPlan Rainwater Model

By Ken Goulding posted on Tue, 2010-10-05 16:08 , 509 reads, 0 comments

Different landscape choices handle water in different ways. Any landscape will release runoff if enough water falls, however greener landscapes and pervious paving options do a much better job of absorbing and containing water before runoff occurs.

 

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Chris Hodges's picture

Taxes on Student Tuition - Good or Bad Policy?

By Chris Hodges posted on Wed, 2009-12-16 14:07 , 294 reads, 0 comments
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/education/16coll...

The City of Pittsburgh is planning to add a 1% tax to student tuitions to pay for employee pensions. There are about 10 reasons why this is a bad idea, and 10 why it's a good idea. And about 50 unintended consequences.

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Knowledge Cartography

By Stephen Gray posted on Fri, 2009-12-04 00:58 , 423 reads, 0 comments
http://www.knowledgecartography.org/

"The aim of the research is to extend the cartographic metaphor beyond visual analogy, and to expose it as a narrative model and tool to intervene in complex, heterogeneous, dynamic realities, just like those of human geography. The map, in this context, is not only a passive representation of reality but a tool for the production of meaning. The map is thus a communication device: a mature representation artefact, aware of its own language and its own rhetoric, equipped with it its own tools, languages, techniques and supports."

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Programming a Napkin Sketch

By Ken Goulding posted on Thu, 2009-07-16 17:51 , 947 reads, 2 comments

While building programming is an integral part of the architectural design process, it's seldom given a high priority until fairly late in the game. We wanted to bring programming discussions to the table even as early as the napkin sketch and created a simple tool to do so.

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Forget Stormwater, It's All About Rainwater!

By Steve Benz posted on Thu, 2009-07-16 16:44 , 677 reads, 0 comments

 Forget Stormwater, It's All About Rainwater!

Low Impact Development- It's not business as usual for stormwater engineersread more

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Chris Hodges's picture

"Recession Strategy" plans for schools?

By Chris Hodges posted on Tue, 2009-07-14 19:09 , 218 reads, 2 comments

 

 

Interesting story. Public school gets slammed with applicants, wants to first maintain quality and then gradually expand. Read the article Well-Regarded Public Colleges Get a Surge of Bargain Hunters from the NY Times featuring SUNY New Paltz, where Sasaki is currently starting a Landscape Master Plan for the campus.

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For Ever-Expanding Colleges, Space Is the Final Frontier

By Philip Parsons posted on Wed, 2009-07-01 10:32 , 220 reads, 0 comments
http://chronicle.com/blogs/architecture/2741/for-e...

Gregory Janks and I are quoted in this brief article about space utilization in the Chronicle of Higher Education.


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What is an ECODISTRICT?

By Philip Parsons posted on Fri, 2009-06-26 17:06 , 690 reads, 0 comments

If you Google "EcoDistrict", you mostly find greenfield or brownfield sites transformed into comprehensive sustainable communities in Northern Europe.  These are somewhat utopian projects that tell us little about how to make our existing cities into sustainable communities - but existing cities account for the vast majority of global population, and the vast majority of the global carbon footprint. 

 

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