CITB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Urban Sprawl, Urban Design, New Urbanism
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What is urban design: looks at the arranged of urban structure, the scale larger than the individual building, the designer looks at how the building relates to the environment. The social life of small urban spaces. The street life project: functional seating. The more than half of the world live in cities. Low density urban sprawl is the most dominant form of urban development. Cities have an important impact on the globe. 1987: the brooklyn commission that looked for the first time at the question of sustainability. Sustainability development: a concept that important temporal factor because it deals with the future. Lack of sustainability correlates to the concept of if one keeps doing what they are doing on, they wont be able to keep it up for too long. Brooklyn report: sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own need.
