Core Session: Transect & Coding

Start Date
04/29/2015
End Date
04/29/2015
Description
In New Urbanism, one-size-fits-all strategies are off the table. Borrowing from biologists’ understanding of ecological systems, the movement has honored the complexities of human settlement and evolved strategies that strengthen communities through choice and diversity. This session provides an introduction to the Transect and form-based codes as tools of the New Urbanism.
Location
Dallas, TX
Distance Learning
No
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Urban Planning & Design
Health, Safety and Welfare
No
Hours
1.0
Learning Outcomes
- Participants will learn how lessons of ecological systems—i.e. the rural to urban transect—can inform human settlement patterns and urban design.
- Participants will discover how the complexities of human settlement evolved strategies that strengthen communities through choice and diversity.
- Participants will be given an introduction to form-based building and design codes, and how municipalities can adopt them in order to achieve more predictability in built form.
- Participants will be able to apply biologist knowledge of ecosystems to community planning.
Instructors
Sandy Sorlien
Course Codes
Provider
The Congress for the New Urbanism


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