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New Town of Harbor Hills
2002 to 2005Master Plan to provide information about philosophy, method and intent, in sufficient depth to satisfy the City, County and State officials regarding the entitlement of the land in Harbor Peak, and to provide a basis for that entitlement to be given. The plan deals primarily with the large scale structure, like projected growth, density distribution, neighborhoods, house lots and volumes, roads, paths and parking, but it addresses the small scale structure, like typology of space entities, positive space, trees, house and garden layout processes.
References
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The Process of Urban Design and the Formation of Larger Urban Wholes
Theoretical basis and key assumptions for the process of urban growth, tested initially in the San Francisco Waterfront experimental project in 1979, in which the formation of larger urban wholes was highlighted as an overriding rule. This process was further ...
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The Sequence of Unfolding - Generative Codes for the Design Process
In architecture, as in other things, the "right" sequence is of vital importance. It is a generative sequence of progressive differentiations, which allow space to unfold in the right order. Each differentiation acts on the product of the previous ...
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Master Planning as a Dynamic Process - Organic Order and Piecemeal Growth
It is simply not possible to fix today, in a Master Plan, what the environment should be like in the future, and then to steer the piecemeal process of development toward that fixed, imaginary world. Instead, planning and construction will ...