A Case Study worth visiting
Sustainability as a philosophy, that is to sustain growth within our limited existing knowledge and resources, is expressed as that – a theory worthy of pursuit but impossible to actually deliver.
Urban Design is not just about the physical change of the built form, it also incorporates incredible dynamics of social demography, economics, and resource management. In essence urban design is built upon the fundamentals of sustainability, and in this blog we look at all of this from an Australian perspective.
Sunday, 18 July 2010
Saturday, 10 July 2010
‘Place’ in the shrinking cultural space
(first published in 2004 - but still a timely debate)
The rediscovery and popular debate of our local communities being ‘places’ of diverse and powerful sources of economic, social and environmental solutions is a welcome change. However, in the production of designing ‘places’, are we failing to recognise these embedded resources and commonly deliver a built environment devoid of cultural presence?
How the built form creates culture
(this was published in urban design forum 2005 - would be interested in further comments)
When endeavouring to pursue urban design, most proponents today deal with the human scale and the experience to be obtained. Urban researcher Amos Rappoport was one of the first to provide evidence that the mnemonic connection to the built environment helped to define its use or the culture created by this interaction.
When endeavouring to pursue urban design, most proponents today deal with the human scale and the experience to be obtained. Urban researcher Amos Rappoport was one of the first to provide evidence that the mnemonic connection to the built environment helped to define its use or the culture created by this interaction.
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