LDEM 228Special Topics VI:Urban Landscape Design

The focus of this studio is site design in the urban context. As such, it will enable students to explore the particular challenges of designing in complex urban environments. By their nature, urban environments have multiple layers and meanings and are influenced by an array of forces. Urban landscapes are an amalgam of myriad social, cultural, political, economic, and ecological processes on physical space. Designing in the urban context therefore requires sensitivity to these many layers and influences. Creative response to the challenges of urban environments requires careful attention to the landscape narratives students choose to tell, and how users of a space learn and discover new things from a site. Prerequisite: LDEM 246.