(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.
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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Saturday, 10 July 2010
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