A feasibility study is a detailed investigation and analysis conducted to determine the financial, technical, or other advisability of a proposed construction project.
feasibility study // Transition Works
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Environmental design is the ordering of the physical environment by means of architecture, engineering, construction, landscape architecture, urban design, and city planning.
Grimshaw Architects // Ecorium, South Korea
Technically put, zoning is the legislative process that divides privately-owned urban areas into different zones (such as residential, commercial, industrial) according to the specified land use. Each zone is regulated as to the density, location, size, and type of buildings permitted therein.
Zoning, nevertheless, is a tool for spatial organization.
Town of Fort Frances Official Plan & Zoning Bylaw
The Latin American anthropologist Jesús Barbero characterises new urban cultures and their use of knowledge as abduction, which denotes an alternative action.
Abduction, denotes the action of taking a lateral exit in a formal argument, rather than going forward to the conventional conclusion. Understood as such, abduction then, is a form of resistance to the hegemony. In its best- known contemporary use, related to stories of aliens, abduction denotes an irresistible attraction for something that is apparently aberrant. Continue Reading…
City planning, also called town planning, or 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 Los Angels, 1964
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