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Architectural Education: Turning Design Culture Right Side Up
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Fri, 04/13/2007 - 12:31pm
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Participants will critique the studio culture, academic content, and teaching methodologies that prevail overtly, latently, or by default in schools of architecture, in light of contemporary trends and issues in architecture and urbanis... read more »
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The Coming Demand: Building for Our Aging Population
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Fri, 04/13/2007 - 12:22pm
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This session will showcase essential techniques and strategies for enhancing the sustainability of the traditional urban form. Find out what population densities are needed to make transit viable, how to treat stormwater on-site across ... read more »
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Making and Marketing Mixed Income Neighborhoods
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Fri, 04/13/2007 - 11:29am
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Over the past several years, the federal HOPE VI program has been the principle source of funding for the development of mixed-income neighborhoods. But with Hope VI facing reductions and possible elimination, developers, planners, and ... read more »
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Working with the Modernist Legacy
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 5:18pm
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In both Europe and North America, cities are reworking modernist buildings and spaces, sometimes to re-establish traditional urban space, sometimes to create new forms. Panelists will explore the promise of modifying and humanizing mode... read more »
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Techniques for Sustainable Urbanism
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 4:49pm
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This session will showcase essential techniques and strategies for enhancing the sustainability of the traditional urban form. Find out what population densities are needed to make transit viable, how to treat stormwater on-site across ... read more »
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The Sustainable City
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 4:23pm
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The last ten years have produced a burst of visionary principles and standards designed to reform patterns of human settlement—Ahwahnee, Hanover, Aalborg Charter, CNU Charter, Smart Growth, LEED, and theTransect. As a result, today th... read more »
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Shared Space-Reconciling People, Places and Traffic
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 4:06pm
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For several generations, the spaces between buildings have
been dominated by the requirements of traffic engineering,
with its language of signs, traffic signals, bollards, barriers,
curbs, and road markings. As a result there has been ... read more »
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Tradition and Preservation
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 3:32pm
Description:
Modern historic preservation is a product of modernism and
looks on traditional buildings as relics of the past. It often
prohibits both contemporary traditional design and contextual
building. Yet, in the 21st century, traditional arch... read more »
Razing Freeways, Raising Values
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 12:05pm
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Cities across North America are removing freeways to ignite
reinvestment. Recognizing the destruction of neighborhoods
and land values caused by urban freeways, communities are
choosing alternatives that restore torn fabric through rich... read more »
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