COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. To understand the economic, technological*, environmental and political forces that have created or are creating the built form of the environment, from the end of 19th Century to the beginning of the 21st Century, at both a micro level (individual building or project) and macro level (urban agglomeration).
2. To explore the beginnings of the neo urbansist movement and understand the implications for urban design and the Architecture profession today.
3. To examine the catalysts that will lead to higher levels of economic and environmental sustainability for our cities.
4. To gauge community support or opposition to neo urbanist solutions.
5. To measure the impacts of public policy such as master planning, zoning and other regulatory regimes on urban form and design and the sustainability of cities. To understand the challenges facing the development industry today. (Read: Inspiration and Challenges- Sunset Lakes Lecture by Dan Anderson, November 6, 2006.)
6. To analyse at the micro level the development of individual sites using the highest and best land use principal, return on investment criteria, project financing and due diligence process.
The precepts for this course are tied to existing socio-economic and political systems; essentially, the idea that mixed economic systems (where honest government is combined with an efficient private sector leading to a modern, growing economy) are the norm is accepted here. In some western and northern European nations and in Japan, we are likely to see dramatic decreases in population in the next 50 years.
Birth rates are 1.2 per adult female or less and immigration rates are low or even negative. How many new homes, offices, shopping malls, transit systems ... will be required in countries with aging and decreasing populations? It's possible that these nations might open their doors to new immigrants but if they don't, they will certainly face new challenges not seen since the Black Death killed more than half of Europe in the Middle Ages and completey or nearly depopulated most cities and towns.
The impact on the built form of the city may not be as drastic as the absolute decline in population might suggest. If dwelling unit occupancy rates continue their 50 year trend of secular decline, there may still be a need for new construction as the nature of the household changes. Obviously, aging populations will require their own new forms of housing.
But there can be no doubt, the real estate industry in those countries will undergo significant change.
We are also assuming that the energy needs of a modern economy will continue to be met (somehow) and the environment that supports the biosphere will recover. City-building is essentially an exercise by optimistic people who have a belief in the future; modern humans have an intense need to be creative; they enjoy using their (large) brains and dexterous hands (with opposable thumbs) to change the environment around them. People are incessant tinkerers and urbanists are certainly part of this culture of change.
For Architects who take this course, we are aiming to also equip them with: a) a deeper understanding of their future developer clients which is useful either in your own practice or in a JOB in an established practice, b) an ability to be their own client, i.e., to become an architect/developer and c) a greater ability to become an entrepreneur architect running his or her own practice.
ASSIGNMENTS
This course is project based and essay based, which together with an in-class final exam, make up the bulk of the marks. The balance is from attendance and course participation.
Students will be required to write one essay on a choice of topics including student-selected topics. The latter is subject to approval of the lecturer. Students may choose from a list of potential essay topics. Students should try to bring two or three referenced sources to their essay writing so that they are tying in their views and opinions and analyses to the existing body of knowledge somewhere. Essays should be not more than four pages long. Alternatively, students may post on the EQ Journal Blog site on a category of interest they find there or they may suggest an additional category to be added. Blog entries should be shorter, in the order of 10 paragraphs or so.
There will be one project that will be assigned in teams of two to three students per team. Projects will involve a design element, an analytical analysis and may include real world interviews/surveys. Students will be required to select a site, provide a provocative, iconic, creative, mixed use design that embodies neo-urbanist principles. Students may wish to gauge neighbor and approval authority reaction through in person interviews (using videography) or use online methods (organizing Instant Messaging conferences or online surveys). Projects will involve written material and presentation material. Projects may be presented for review at the end of the course, time permitting.
Students will be expected to post their assignments to their personal web sites.
Please form teams for the design project.
Aerial Photos of all of Ottawa are available at: http://atlas.city.ottawa.on.ca/mapping/atlas/atlas.htm.
This is a great tool to use. Obviously, you also need to walk a site, photograph it, look at the neighborhood, adjacent uses, transportation links, special views, water features, natural features, preservation, heritage, archaeological, and much more besides.
There will be a 90 minute in-class final exam in the final lecture period of the term. The prior class wlll be used for an in-class review of topics covered in the lectures.
(Please note: it is highly recommended that students read James Howard Kuntsler's Home from Nowhere to better appreciate the underlying philosophy on urban design that is explored in the class.)
(Assignment Due Dates 2004. Kitchissippi Times Press Coverage, Project 2004.)
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Affordable Housing in Africa
Billboards: a Visual Blight or a Freedom-of-Speech Issue or Both?
Bootstrap Capital Sources
Case Study- Kennedy Meadows Project: Severance or Sub-division?
Creativity and Architecture- The Limits to Logic
Catalysts
Development Charges are Inequitable and Damage the Prospects for Building Affordable Housing- memo to CAOs in the City of Ottawa and environs
Development Economics and Entrepreneurship
Development Potential:
Cost estimating, cost/benefit analysis and assessing development potential for a site, Design Economics Handbook (Outline), Student Lofts (Student Project), Why Invest in Real Estate, Student Loan to a Prof, Sample IRR for a Residential Project, the Power of Leverage, Value of Education, the Value of a City's Treescapes
Dollars are Democrats- The 'Highest and Best Use' Rule as a Principle for Organizing Cities, Towns and Villages Or Why Nimby'ites are Wrong to Oppose Higher Densities and Mixed Use
Douglas Cardinal- Key Point Notes
Entrepreneurialist Culture- How to Bootstrap Yourself to Success in the 21st Century
Expropriations- an ethical dilemma
Interview with Hernando de Soto
Introduction to Architecture and Urban Design- Modernist Urban Design and Spatial Apartheid, Notes for Students
Lands' End- Real Estate and Development Explained
Letters of Credit and Construction
Letting the World Know about Ottawa, Canada's Capital City-a new marketing initiative
Livable Cities
Marketing and Merchandising Real Estate: Feng Shui Number Generator
Micro Lending- Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Founder of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, Shows the Way out of Poverty is supporting Grassroots Entrepreneurs
No Money Down Real Estate Investing
Ottawa Vision: A Bold Vision for the City of Ottawa
Ottawa Vision 2002- A Focus on self-reliance
Ontario Mayors Overlook Solution to Affordable Housing Crisis
Over Investment in Real Estate
Peggy Feltmate's Policies
Personal Business for Life (PB4L)
Perpetual Motion Machine - Rental Home Construction, Meaurement of IRR, the Power and Risks of Leverage and Creating the Perpetual Home Buying Machine By Ryan Pearce
Property Rights, Land Description, Legal Description, Land Titles, Human Rights and Economic
Development
Negative Property taxes- a Response to Nimby'itis
Stupid Municipal ByLaws
Sustainable Cities and Neo-Urbanist Design
Teamwork in the 10th Millennium B.C.
Twenty Five Steps To Entrepreneurial Success
The Value of Education- A Case Study of the Perceived Value of An Architecture Degree
The Way Ahead*
Urban Catalysts
Urban Design Principles Leading to Community Consensus
Value of a City's Treescape
What is the Fiscal Impact of Commercial Development on a City versus Single Family Development?,
Why Invest in Real Estate
Unique Attributes of Real Estate (If I were King of Exxon, I would...)
Zoning Process
(*Technological change and, in particular, the rise of the Internet, Mediatronic Architecture and Stereo Space**, essentially killing distance, are changing the built form-- both its uses and its design. How it will affect urban design and what types of projects are needed to meet future demand are very much in question.)
(** The architectural uses of stereo space are likely to have a significant impact on building design and city sustainability. Stereo space harnesses individual left eye and right eye feeds for graphics, text, animation and video together with sound, vibration and music so that architectural spaces can be used in new ways to educate, entertain, inform, interact, travel, meet, communicate, work, co-operate, produce, research, consult, sell, market, host and teach—all without the physical requirement of moving people, goods or services around the planet. The impacts of stereo space on the software of our cities will assist the system in moving to higher levels of sustainability both in terms of reduction in environmental impacts and much higher utilization of existing infrastructure as homes become workplaces and workplaces become homes leading to both a safer environment and a more efficient form of urban agglomeration with fewer pressures on transportation systems. Having said this, the need to build 'tribal' meeting places, where people can meet, exchange ideas, trade, socialize, exchange skills, specialize or otherwise create synergy will still, no doubt, be needed.)
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Students with disabilities requiring academic accommodations in this course are encouraged to contact a coordinator at the Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities to complete the necessary letter of accommodation. After registering with the PMC, make an appointment to meet and discuss your needs at least two weeks prior to the first in-class test. This is necessary in order to ensure sufficient time to make the necessary arrangements. Please note the following deadlines for submitting completed forms to the Paul Menton Centre: November 5th for fall and fall/winter courses, and March 1st for winter term courses.
GRADING
Grades will be based, in part, on course participation and attendance; students must demonstrate an intellectual curiosity about urbanism. The course is designed to be interactive. Performance (think-on-your-feet) when presenting assignments will be important as well. Much of the success of the neo urbanist movement and the movement toward higher levels of sustainability in the built form of our environment (like the change to conservation subdivision design principles in rural surroundings) derives from the ability to clearly convey ideas and the merits of a project or design to the wider community including neighborhood groups, local governments, planning officials, other approval authorities and the media.
For the grade in the "A" range, the instructor will have judged the student to have satisfied the stated objectives of the course in an outstanding to excellent manner; for the "B" range, in an above average manner; for the "C" range, in an average manner with C- being the lowest acceptable grade in the Program's Core courses; for the "D" range, in the lowest acceptable manner in non-Core courses, and for "F", not to have satisfied the stated objectives of the course. Grades will be assigned as A+ (90-100%), A (85-89%), A- (80-84%), B+ (77-79%), B (73-76%), B- (70-72%), C+ (67-69%), C (63-66%), C- (60-62%), D+ (57-59%), D (53-56%), D- (50-52%), F (0-49%) and ABS. (Please refer to the Calendar for regulations concerning grades, appeals and other program requirement information.)
Each grade will be based upon a comparison (1) with other students in the course and/or (2) with students who have previously taken the course and/or (3) with the instructor's expectations relative to the stated objectives of the course, based on his/her experience and expertise.
(Please note that Carleton University has a policy on plagiarism, which deals with the use of anther's work without acknowledgment. The Administration has asked all lecturers to note this to their students and to mention that Internet plagiarism is as detectable as other forms. )
For the grade of "A", the instructor will have judged the student to have satisfied the stated objectives of the course in an excellent manner; for "B", in an above average manner; for "C", average; for "D", in the lowest acceptable manner, and for "F", not to have satisfied the stated objectives of the course. Grades will be assigned as A+, A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D+, D, D-, F and ABS. (Please refer to the Calendar for regulations concerning grades and appeals.)
ATTENDANCE
Attendance is required for all classes. The Lecturer will be available for office consultations for 45 minutes after each class.
SPECIAL NOTE
This course is recommended for students in Years 3 and 4 of the School of Architecture Bachelor program or their first or second year of Masters studies, inter-disciplinary studies students, engineers, geographers, business students and others interested in Urban Economics, Urban Design, Urban Geography and Real Estate Development and Sustainability.
Web Enabled Courseware
We will be using a classroom with a data projector. Access to the web and all the relevant resources on the web will assist the class in its mission to better understand design economics and the accompanying assignments.
(* Technological change and, in particular, the rise of the Internet, Stereo Space** and Mediatronic Architecture, essentially killing distance and changing the built form-- both its uses and its design, will form a sub-theme throughout this course.)
(** The architectural uses of stereoscopic space are likely to have a significant impact on building design and city sustainability. Stereo space harnesses individual left eye and right eye feeds for graphics, text, animation and video together with sound, vibration and music so that architectural spaces can be used in new ways to educate, entertain, inform, interact, travel, meet, communicate, work, co-operate, produce, research, consult, sell, market, host and teach—all without the physical requirement of moving people, goods or services around the planet. The impacts of stereo space on the software of our cities will assist the system in moving to higher levels of sustainability both in terms of reduction in environmental impacts and much higher utilization of existing infrastructure as homes become workplaces and workplaces become homes leading to both a safer environment and a more efficient form of urban agglomeration with fewer pressures on transportation systems.)
GUEST LECTURERS
Students may be introduced to guest lecturers who bring day to day experience in the industry or in government to the classroom.
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SUGGESTED READINGS
A Better Place to Live- Reshaping the American Suburb, Philip Langdon, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1994.
Affordable Homes Program- Teaching, Research, Knowledge transfer, McGill University, Montreal, 1996.
Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins, W.W. Norton & Company, 1986.
Boom, Bust & Echo 2000, Profiting from the Demographic Shift in the New Millennium, David K. Foot with Daniel Stoffman, Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, Toronto, 1996 & 1998.
Cities and the Wealth of Nations- Principles of Economic Life, Jane Jacobs, Random House, New York, 1985.
Conservation Design for Subdivisions- A Practical Guide to Creating Open Space Networks, Randall G. Arendt, Natural Lands Trust, American Planning Association and American Society of Landscape Architects, Island Press, Washington, DC, 1996.
Dark Age Ahead, Jane Jacobs, Random House, N.Y., 2004.
Edge City, Joel Garreau, Doubleday, 1992.
Fixing Broken Windows- Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities, George L. Kelling and Catherine M. Coles, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1996.
Geography of Nowhere- the Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape, James Howard Kunstler, Touchstone, New York, 1993.
Getting to Yes- Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, Roger Fisher and William Ury, Penguin Books, New York, 1991.
Home from Nowhere- Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century, James Howard Kunstler, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1996.
Lost Rights- the Destruction of American Liberty, James Bovard, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994.
Real Estate Principles, 7th Edition, Charles F. Floyd and Marcus T. Allen, Dearborn, Chicago, Ill., 2002.
Small is Stupid- Blowing the Whistle on the Greens, Wifred Beckerman, Redwood Books Limited, Trowbridge, 1995.
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson, Bantam Books, New York, 1992.
The Building Code- containing the Building Code Act and O. Reg. 419/86, Government of Ontario, Ministry of Housing Buildings Branch, Queen's Printer, Toronto, 1986.
The City in Mind, James Howard Kuntsler, The Free Press, NY, 2001.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs, Vintage Books, Random House, New York, 1961.
The Diamond Age- or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, Neal Stephenson, Bantam Books, New York, 1995.
The Economy of Cities, Jane Jacobs, Vintage, N.Y., 1970.
The Ingenuity Gap: How can we solve the problems of the future?, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2000.
The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses, Amar V. Bhide, Oxford University Press, 1999.
The Stress of Life (Revised), Hans Selye, McGraw Hill, first published 1956.
Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities, Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank and Richard Jackson, Island Press, Washington, D.C., 2004.
What They Don't Teach You at the Harvard Business School, Mark H. McCormack, Bantam Books, New York, 1984.
What They Don't Still Teach You at the Harvard Business School, Mark H. McCormack, Bantam Books, New York, 1989.
Why Things Bite Back- Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, Edward Tenner, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1996.
FURTHER READINGS
A Better Place to Live- Reshaping the American Suburb, Philip Langdon, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1994.
Affordable Homes Program- Teaching, Research, Knowledge transfer, McGill University, Montreal, 1996.
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Penguin Group, New York, 1957.
Australian Urban Economics- A Reader, J. C. McMaster and G. R. Webb, Editors, Australia and New Zealand Book Company, Sydney, 1976.
Boom, Bust & Echo 2000, Profiting from the Demographic Shift in the New Millennium, David K. Foot with Daniel Stoffman, Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, Toronto, 1996 & 1998.
Cities and the Wealth of Nations- Principles of Economic Life, Jane Jacobs, Random House, New York, 1985.
City Life- Urban Expectations in a New World, Witold Rybczynski, HarperCollins, Toronto, 1995.
City Space + Globalization- An International Perspective, Hemalata C. Dandekan, Editor, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1998.
Conservation Design for Subdivisions- A Practical Guide to Creating Open Space Networks, Randall G. Arendt, Natural Lands Trust, American Planning Association and American Society of Landscape Architects, Island Press, Washington, DC, 1996.
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, Edward Osborne Wilson, 1997.
Creating a New Civilization, Alvin and Heidi Toffler, Turner Publishing, Atlanta, 1994.
Earthscape- A Manual of Environmental Planning and Design, John Ormsbee Simonds, Van Nostrand Reinbold, New York, 1978.
Energy in a Finite World- A Global Systems Analysis, Report by the Energy Systems Program Group of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Wolf Häfele, Program Leader, Ballinger, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981.
Fixing Broken Windows- Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities, George L. Kelling and Catherine M. Coles, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1996.
Geography of Nowhere- the Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape, James Howard, Kunstler, Touchstone, New York, 1993.
Geography of Time- the temporal misadventures of a social psychologist, Robert Levine, Basic Books, HarperCollins, New York, 1997.
Getting to Yes- Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, Roger Fisher and William Ury, Penguin Books, New York, 1991.
Good City Form, Kevin Lynch, the MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981.
Home from Nowhere- Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century, James Howard Kunstler, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1996.
Living Near the Water- Environemtnal Design for Shoreline Properties, General Store Publishing House, Burnstown, Ontario, 1994.
Local Service Pricing Policies and their Effect on Urban Spatial Structure, Paul B. Downing, Editor, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1974.
Lost Rights- the Destruction of American Liberty, James Bovard, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994.
Managing for the Future, Peter F. Drucker, Penguin Group, New York, 1992.
New Life for Old Suburbs- Post war Land Use and Housing in the Australian Inner City, Hal Kendig, George Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1979.
Ottawa Senators Hockey Club- Official Application, National Hockey League Plan of Sixth Expansion, Terrace Investments Limited, Ottawa, 1990.
Real Estate Development, Principles and Practices, the Urban Land Institute.
Residential Real Estate in Canada, O. J. Firestone, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1951.
Shifting Gears, Nuala Beck, HarperCollins, Toronto, 1992.
Small is Stupid- Blowing the Whistle on the Greens, Wifred Beckerman, Redwood Books Limited, Trowbridge, 1995.
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson, Bantam Books, New York, 1992.
Studies Commissioned by the Committee of Commonwealth/State Officials on Decentralisation, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1975.
The Building Code- containing the Building Code Act and O. Reg. 419/86, Government of Ontario, Ministry of Housing Buildings Branch, Queen's Printer, Toronto, 1986.
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Feng Shui- How to Apply the Secrets of Chinese Wisdom for Health, Wealth and Happiness, Lillian Too, Element Books Limited, UK, 1996.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs, Vintage Books, Random House, New York, 1961.
The Diamond Age- or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, Neal Stephenson, Bantam Books, New York, 1995.
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand, Signet Books, New York, 1943.
The Ingenuity Gap: How can we solve the problems of the future?, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2000.
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, Harvill Press, London, 1967.
The Next Home, Avi Friedman, McGill University, School of Architecture Affordable Homes program, Montreal, 1996.
Urban Development in Australia- A Descriptive Analysis, Max Neutze, George Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1977.
What They Don't Teach You at the Harvard Business School, Mark H. McCormack, Bantam Books, New York, 1984.
What They Don't Still Teach You at the Harvard Business School, Mark H. McCormack, Bantam Books, New York, 1989.
Why Things Bite Back- Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, Edward Tenner, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1996.
RELATED TOPICS
Affordable housing program 11
Amphitheatre design 10
Anthropological architecture 1
Approvals process 6
Architects, Famous 16
Astrians 3
Bankruptcy 8
Black Holes in Our Cities 5
Broken Windows Syndrome 5
Building Code 4
Burbclaves Will Lead to Social Disorder and Collapse (the case against Gated Communities) 5, 15
By-laws and land use planning controls 14
Catalysts 5
Case studies- amphitheatre design, Corel centre, duplex and triplex housing, office building design, subdivision design, Friendship Windmill, Dunrobin Lake, Robertson Mews, Disney Paris, Kanata North, water park and others 10
City Beautiful
City-states 18
Commercial Office Design- Calian Technologies 3
Commercial office design- elevators (limits on office tower heights) 3
Commercial office markets, design and trends- synergistic office design for serendipitous tribal gatherings, space planning, parking lots, etc. 3
Commercial retail zoning, markets and trends 3
Competition- niche markets and trends 9
Conservation Trust 7, 19
Consumer Rights and Consumer Democracy 1, 15, 16
Contractors- construction management 6
Corel Centre 10
Creativity, lateral thinking and value creation 3
Creativity and creation of value- Dunrobin Lake Commercial Block Upzoning 3
Democratic abuse, Nimby'itis, greed and fear, alternative future vision: Earth as garden and home (see Future Vision or Nimby'itis) 19
Demographics 5
Densification, density deficit 1
Density and Value- Why Nimby'ites are Wrong (see Land Value- new and used) 2, 15
Deregulation of city zoning by-laws (see re-engineering of LUP) 14
Development charges 4, 2
Developer Charges By-Law Revisions 11
Duplex Design and Analysis- Article 11
Duplex/Triplex- Affordable Homes Demo Project 11
Duplex/triplex- economics 10
Education, Value of (See IRR- value of education as an example) 3
Entertainment and Tourism economy- NHL, other 18
Entrenched interests (Councils, Enviros, Nimby'ites, Special Interest Groups, Big Business, Community Associations, HOAs, ….) See Politics and Players 16
Enterprise of the City
Environmentalism versus development 7
Ethics in real estate development and architecture 12
Expropriations 4
Farmland issue 7
Financing and capital markets- bootstrap financing/bootstrap business startup/bootstrap marketing 8, 9
Floodplain, storm water, water table management 15
Future vision 19
Gated Communities 4, 19
Generation X and Y- impacts on the industry 18
Geography of nowhere 3, 15
Geography of Time 5
Government intervention in the real estate marketplace 4
Government subsidies 4
Heritage value- Re-use of Existing Buildings 3
Home Construction and Design- Volumetric Use of Space, Co-ops, Non-Profits 11
Housing Investments Make No Economic Sense 4
Housing Investments- IRR of Housing, Imputed Rents, Tax Deductibility, Hidden Profits, Hidden Losses 4
Housing lifecycle 11
Housing markets and trends- real estate supply and demand theory; irrational markets, governments, consumers- deal with it 18
Index Of Sustainability
Imputed Rent- An Explanation
Intellectual property (see Ethics) 3
Intergenerational equity 11
Internal rates of return for real estate projects 3
IRR- value of education as an example
IRR Calculations- How to really Measure Real Estate Rates of Return 3
Internet is Eating a Hole in the World Economy- deflation because of the net; collapse of currencies and r.e. prices are related to early adopters of tech in USA 18
Internet and Internet Mail Boxes 15, 18
Land assembly 13
Land Values/land conversion from rural to urban uses 2
Land Value- new and used (see Density and Value- why Nimby'ites are wrong) 2, 15
Lansdowne Park 4, 10
Legal Issues 12
Lenders, financial ratios, access to funds 11
Livable Cities
Lobbying and negotiating tactics and strategy for project approvals 6
Local knowledge 17
Lost Rights 16
Marketing, market share, bootstrap marketing 9
Measurement (Appendix)
Metaverse Impact on Built Form of Cities 18
Mixed Use, infill, granny flats, walking cities, home employment, block safety 7, 14
Negotiating, selling 9
Neo Urbanism
Nimby'itis and democratic abuse 7
Optimal jurisdiction size (see regional versus local government/one tier government) 15
Option agreements versus agreements of purchase and sale 13
Outhouse design 11
Parking Lots, Parking Administration, Carleton University 10
Philosophy of development- economic, artistic, entrepreneurial 1
Planning approvals 6
Planning process 6
Players- the difference between land developers and home builders; developers, architects, planners, government, lobbyists, consultants, builders, activists, environmentalists, engineers, consumers, bankers, penfunds, insurance companies, vencap, partners, attorneys, community associations, homeowners associations, municipalities, state and federal governments, approval authorities, boards, water and sewer, power, cable and phone utilities, … Entrenched interests (Councils, Enviros, Nimby'ites, Special Interest Groups, Big Business, Community Associations, HOAs, ….) 16
Politics and real estate development (See Entrenched interests (Councils, Enviros, Nimby'ites, Special Interest Groups, Big Business, Community Associations, HOAs, ….)) 16
Pricing, the art of 8
Professional practice 12
Property rights and lost rights 16
Property taxes 16
Public Transportation 15
Purchase Lands (see Site Selection) 13, 17
Questionnaire on student attitudes to real estate development issues 6
RDCs- Exemptions on Relocated/Recycled Buildings (see Development Charges) 4
Re-engineering of land use planning (LUP) 14
Regional government versus local (municipal) government- optimal city size 15
Rent control and the destruction of rental markets and housing stock 4
Residence Program 4
Revenge effects 4
Rural Life- mixing higher socio-economic groups with lower; does it work? 17
Site selection (see Purchase lands)- walk the site; Booby Traps- riparian rights, flood plain, pre-existing environmental damage (hidden), vacant possession 13
Site Ownership- security of tenure, small business survival 8
Social Fabric- how it affects Housing Prices (compare with Italian Trains) 17
Socialism/the politics of the left and real estate development 7
Special Interest Groups 16
Speculators- their role as market makers 2
Stadium design 10
Streetscape
Street Life- the theatre of the street 15
Sub-division design and analysis, land required before purchase 15
Sub-division design, rural- individual water wells and septic systems versus communal systems 15
Sub-division design, rural- neo traditional village versus conventional post WW II designs 15
Sub-division design- segregation by income 15
Supply and demand theory 8
Sustainability-Micro and Macro Approach to Measurement
Tooth to tail ratios and design efficiency 3
Traffic and Transportation 15
Units of measurement (Appendix)
Urban Design 1, 15
Urban Economics
Urban Form and Morphology 15
Urban spaces 15
Urban sprawl- the real causes 15
Water and sewer services 10
Women in Architecture ?
World wide web- impact on real estate development trends 18
Zoning- flexibility, choice, re-engineering 14
Zoning and its implications- artificial scarcity of supply and unintended consequences 4
Our project in 2003 was one involving a complex, iconinc structure with many elements including: retail, office, residential and media/entertainment/tourism functions.
Media Tower
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TGB (Tethered Gas Balloon)
Stockholm
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The project includes both a media tower and a tethered gas balloon for scenic adventure tourism. The project is an example of:
neo-urbanist principles
mixed use
densification
intensification
iconic architecture.
Concerning the latter, it is interesting to note that the only way Georges Eiffel could get the Eiffel Tower built (i.e, to get through the 'planning' process) was to say that all he wanted was a five year temporary use permit. Now, decades later, if you were to say you wanted to remove any part of the Tower, you would get Parisiens to the barricades.
It is also worth noting that the London Eye (http://www.londoneye.com/) used the same approach-- they asked for a five year permit but their spec was for a 50 year structure. Now that the London Eye is the # 1 tourist attraction in Britain, do you think they will take it down in 2005? Not going to happen...
It shows the limitations of the municipal 'planning' process-- it can be a straight jacket on cities making them worse places to live not better.
As a developer or architect, you need to develop a deep feeling for the land before you can establish a functional program or design concept.
I also attach the spreadsheet for the proposed functional program.
Outputs from the Media Tower Project should include:
1. your version of the functional program
2. aerial photo and street level photos of the site
3. preliminary sketches as you develop your concept (freehand)
4. concept plan drawings-- site plan, floor plans, elevation (CAD preferred)
5. Cost/Benefit Analysis (CBA)
6. a massing model (Computer or RL (Real Life))
7. a name for the tower project (when you give something a name like 'the Palladium' or 'London Eye', you give the idea a life before it exists in RL)
8. feedback from the community, planners and others on your design (you may wish to use my online survey for this too: http://www.dramatispersonae.org/DensificationSurvey/SurveyDensification.htm. It is oriented towards community attitudes to development but you can use it for reaction to your project too.)
9. put your material on a PWS (Personal Web Site). PWSs are very important for professionals-- even basic ones like mine serve a useful purpose. You can read more about why PWSs are important on: http://www.dramatispersonae.org/DesignEconomics/PersonalWebSite.htm. It's a couple of pages, some of it fanciful but worth reading I think. The site will prompt you for a user id and password to read this-- you will need to ask me for that.
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