LAND 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sustainable Development, Landform, Soil Structure
13 Apr 2017
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Homo sapiens (wise one) is an animal (superior) o. Weigh out factors of a problem and reason out a solution. Borrow from an apply to the solution of a problem o. Essential strength (reason for survival, supremacy over other creatures, and future achievement) Power of perception and deduction (essence of planning) Perception: making one aware of all conditions and applicable factors. Deduction: deriving, through reason, an appropriate means of procedure. Status cycle: interaction, reaction, action, deduction, perception o. Victimization: victims of own building (destroyed nature) and trapped in mechanistic surroundings. The evolving of building absorbed us in power of machines and new technology and techniques and made us neglect human needs (desire for natural is unsatisfied) o. Atlanta has 7th worse level of traffic, average person spends 51 extra hours and 1200 dollars extra sitting in traffic. Instead of subjugating nature wholly, we seek harmonious integration (work with nature) known as sustainable design and moving towards resilient design o.
