Archives For November 30, 1999

Environmental design is the ordering of the physical environment by means of architecture, engineering, construction, landscape architecture, urban design, and city planning.

Ecorium

Grimshaw Architects // Ecorium, South Korea

Definition of environmental design

Discipline in all fields of human knowledge has been created by individuals who broke the rules of play of their historic context in their eagerness to invent the future.

Projects that seek solutions within their own discipline, insensitive to their cultural environment, produce autistic interventions that conceal the most entrenched immobilism behind their apparent refinement. A dead weight in history.

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City planning, also called town planning, orĀ urban planning, is the activity or profession of determining the future physical arrangement and condition of a community, involving an appraisal of the current conditions, a forecast of future requirements, a plan for the fulfilment of these requirements, and proposals for legal, financial, and constructional programs to Implement the plan.

Model-of-downtown-LA

Model of downtown Los Angels, 1964

Definition of city planning