Equity is a belief that I hold firmly as a desired value of human civilisation. The economic rationalism of the early 1990’s has seen an incredible explosion of ‘User Pay’ systems in the theory that a free market society finds a balance towards equity. At first I saw virtue in this new ideology, especially as a user. But, when that same philosophy was introduced within the outcomes of my daily sweat and toil, it has made me think otherwise.
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.
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Wednesday, 4 August 2010
Saturday, 10 July 2010
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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