Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
3D Design, Creativity and Critical Insight
- Deconstruct and reconstruct (how to take apart and recreate designs or
- problems)
- Generate creative solutions (i.e., thinking in ways not yet apparent)
- Using professional judgment to make decisions based on incomplete information
- Integrating broader critical and imaginative thinking into logistical (physical)
- hypothesis
- Understanding diverse perspectives and values
Sustainability
- Built environment (open spaces, infrastructures)
- Natural environment (water, land form, climate)
- Historic preservation
- Retrofitting buildings
- Energy (conservation, generation)
- Cultural associations (references)
- Sense of community identity
- Appreciation for traditional patterns, materials and practice
- Access to transportation
- Access to housing
- Jobs to housing balance
- Access to services
Urban Framework
- History and Precedents
- Theory and City Forms
- Land Use, Density and Intensity
- Urban Typology
- Block typology
- Street typology
- Publicly accessible open spaces, streets and orientation
- Civic and cultural facilities
Agency
- Understanding and Managing Change
- Tools and techniques appropriate to the audience (e.g., social media, mainstream media, public presentation, engagement and education etc.)
- Communicating benefits of urban design
- Engaging in diagnostic activities
- Project management | Conflict resolution | Managing interdisciplinary teams
- Aesthetics (sense of beauty) | Fiscal impact | Quality of life (sense of place) | Improved health, safety and wellness
Implementation Tools | Development | Legal | Tools of the trade
- Design Standards and Urban Design
- Capital Improvement Programs
- Incentives: Public, Private and Instutional
- Real Estate Economics
- Construction impacts | Capital, operating, maintenance and lifecycle cost
- Ownership rights | Case law | Land, building, fire and related codes
- Visual evaluation tools | GIS | Graphic presentation of quantitative information
