Landscape, water & geography.

What do we look for in design?

It is critical to redesign our lives, because the US has over 95,000 miles of coastline and over 3.4 million square miles of ocean within its territorial waters. These areas provide a wide range of essential goods and services to society, but we are polluting the waters, dredging the harbors, and filling in the marshes that give resilience, protection, jobs, and habitability to residents along the shore where half our population lives.

Some 53% of the total US population live on the 17% of land in the coastal zone, and these areas become more crowded every year?

Topography
Hydrology
Vegetation
Animals

habitat: nursery grounds, feeding grounds, refugia,

Threats to estuarine health

Social needs

Common

Fire and Health Safety
Roads, parking, electricity & sewer
Schools
Parks
Nature Centers

see: http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/nationalassessment/overviewcoastal.htm

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Private

Commercial

small business
large conglomerates
centers

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Residential

Single - family
Multi-family dwellings
Condominiums (owner controlled)
Apartments (rental)

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Industrial

polluting manufacture
less polluting assembly
less polluting warehouse

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• Criteria
• Values
• Assessing competing worthy goals.
   

Principles of Ecological Design

Keep Everything on site
Ecological accounting informs design
Make Nature Visible
Solutions grow from place
 
 
 

Authors:

1. Marshes of the Ocean Shore
2. Ecological Design
3. Design with Nature
4. Compass and Gyroscope

define design elements
 
  Climate Change Impacts on the United States 2000 Study:

By the National Assessment Synthesis Team, US Global Change Research Program
Published in 2000

What are the elements of a well designed neighborhood?

Using The Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council's criteria, the handouts as related to the texts, such as McHarg, Siry and Van der Ryn to support your ideas, make a list of what a quality community should have.

Draft an essay based on what you learned at midterm from other presentations and your redesign of three places to answer the above question on the qualities well designed communities exhibit.

Preliminary project drafts are due halfway through the term, so start early and revise often.

A sense of place