Measuring City Form: Workshop at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Jan 12

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Andres Sevtsuk; Tunney Lee 

January 12, 2011at the Chinese University of Hong

This workshop invites both architects and city planners to explore how overlaps in the two professions can inform good city design. It is imperative that both fields work collaboratively in the face of massive urbanization in China and the world. The workshop uses city form as a starting point for a conversation towards positive ways of linking city design to the contextual issues of society, economics, politics, environment and culture. 

We evoke measurement as a basis for a common language for both architects and planners in addressing city form. Using materials from Andres Sevtsuk’s dissertation and his course on Measuring City Form along with prof. Tunney Lee’s research on urban density, the workshop offers an overview of methods and approaches to the study of the built environment. We address new directions for city-design research and teaching and invite participants to a productive discussion on the relationships among architecture, planning, urban configuration and social life.

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